Chinese symbol for “rafting”
漂流
piāo liú
to float on the current; to drift along or about; rafting
The closest CC-CEDICT match for rafting is 漂流 (piāo liú), defined as: to float on the current; to drift along or about; rafting.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 漂流.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 漂亮 | piào liang | pretty; beautiful |
| 漂浮 | piāo fú | to float; to hover |
| 漂移 | piāo yí | to drift |
| 漂泊 | piāo bó | (of a boat) to float; to drift; to lie at anchor; (fig.) to roam; to lead a wandering existence |
| 漂白 | piǎo bái | to bleach; to whiten |
| 交流 | jiāo liú | to exchange; exchange |
| 流行 | liú xíng | (of a contagious disease etc) to spread; to propagate; (of a style of clothing, song etc) popular; fashionable |
| 主流 | zhǔ liú | main stream (of a river); fig. the essential point |
See also: Japanese symbol for “rafting”.
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.