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漂 — to float; to drift

Pinyin
piāo · piǎo · piào
Strokes
14
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — piāo, piǎo, piào — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 漂: 14 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

漂 — 14 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 漂 in the HSK syllabus: 5

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 漂亮piàoliangpretty; beautifulHSK 1
  2. 漂piāoto float; to driftHSK 6
  3. 漂泊piāobóto float; to drift; to lie at anchorHSK 7–9
  4. 漂浮piāofúto float; to hover; to drift; to rove; showyHSK 7–9
  5. 漂流piāoliúto float on the current; to drift along or aboutHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.