Memory phrase for the character: 飘

飘

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Meaning

to flutter, to float

Pronunciation

piāo

Explanation

 Left: ticket/bank note 票 (In the west 覀/西 you show 示 your ticket.) [West: 西 = Under the horizon 一 the sun 日 sinks 儿 at the sunset in the west], right: wind 风/風 (Into the sail 几 an insect 虫 is pushed by wind.)

Mnemonic
 
(West wind is weak?) The west shows in the sail by: fluttering.

Radicals

票 ticket, ballotIt is flat 一, there can be two || next to each other and it is flat 口 and you show 示 it: The note or ticket you use at the ballot
風 windAn an insect 虫 in a sail 冂: ... by the wind. It is typically simplified to 风.
示 to show, altarShows a simple altar 丁 with a sacrifice 一 and blood 八 is trickling down. Thus the meanings: to show and altar.




 Vocabulary

飘扬 piāo yáng  wave; flutter; fly
飘浮 piāo fú  to float; to hover
飘落 piāo luò  to float down; to touch down slowly; fig. to decline
邵飘萍 Shào Piāo píng  Shao Piaoping (1884-1926), pioneer of journalism
飘洒 piāo sǎ  suave; graceful; fluent and elegant (calligraphy)
飘拂 piāo fú  to drift lightly
飘渺 piāo miǎo  faintly discernable; as in a mist
鸾飘凤泊 luán piāo fèng bó  lit. firebird soars, phoenix alights (idiom); fig. exquisite bold calligraphy; fig. marriage breaks up; fig. scholar unsuccessful
鸾飘凤泊 luán piāo fèng bó  

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