Chinese symbol for “ostentatious”
浮华
fú huá
Traditional: 浮華
ostentatious; pretentious; showy
The closest CC-CEDICT match for ostentatious is 浮华 (fú huá), defined as: ostentatious; pretentious; showy.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “ostentatious”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 浮华.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 浮现 (浮現) | fú xiàn | (of a thought or image) to come to mind; (of a smile etc) to appear (on sb's face) |
| 浮动 (浮動) | fú dòng | to drift about; to move unsteadily; (fig.) to fluctuate; to rise and fall; to be changeable |
| 漂浮 | piāo fú | to float; to hover |
| 悬浮 (懸浮) | xuán fú | to float (in the air etc); suspension |
| 浮雕 | fú diāo | relief sculpture |
| 浮夸 (浮誇) | fú kuā | to exaggerate; to be boastful |
| 豪华 (豪華) | háo huá | luxurious |
| 精华 (精華) | jīng huá | best feature; most important part of an object |
See also: Japanese symbol for “ostentatious”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.