漂

漂 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 水一田火 (EMWF), four-corner 3119₁, composition ⿰氵票)

• 𡁼, 𨆺, 𨮶, 㵱, 薸

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 644, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18102
• Dae Jaweon: page 1053, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1720, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6F02

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *pʰew, *pʰews): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 票 (OC *pʰew)

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pyaw (“swim, float, raft”) (STEDT; Benedict, 1972; Schuessler, 2007).

Inside Chinese, cognate with 浮 (OC *bu, “to float”), 柎 (OC *po, “raft”), 泭 (OC *pʰo, *bo) & 桴 (OC *bu, *pʰuw, “raft, beam”);

Outside Chinese, cognate with Tibetan འཕྱོ་བ ('phyo ba, “swim, float, soar”), & Jingpho [script needed] (pyau ~ byau, “fly, float; play, shoot, as a fish”).

漂

1. to float (on a liquid); to drift
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to shake; to wave
3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) high and faraway
4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) fast; swift
5. alternative form of 飄 / 飘 (piāo, “to drift (in air); to blow”)
6. to lead a wandering life; to roam; to wander

   1. 北漂  ―  běipiāo  ―  Beijing drifter

漂

1. to bleach
2. to rinse

漂

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to not pay; to fail to pay or repay
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to fail
3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) fast
4. used in 漂亮 (piàoliang, “beautiful”)

• “漂”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “漂”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 176.

(Jōyō kanji)

1. to float; to drift

• Go-on: ひょう (hyō, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ひょう (hyō, Jōyō)
• Kun: ただよう (tadayou, 漂う, Jōyō)

From Middle Chinese 漂 (MC phjiew|phjiewH).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [pʰjo]
• Phonetic hangul: [표]

Wikisource

漂 (eumhun 떠다닐 표 (tteodanil pyo))

1. hanja form^? of 표 (“to float; to drift”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

漂: Hán Việt readings: phiêu (紕(phi)招(chiêu)切(thiết))^{[1][2][3][4][5]}, phiếu^[3][5]
漂: Nôm readings: xiêu^{[1][2][3][6][4][5][7]}, veo^{[1][3][6][4][5]}, phiêu^[1][2][6][4], phều^[3][5][4], phiếu^[2][7], pheo^[3][4], phếu^[5][7], phao^[1], xẻo^[6], phịu^[3], phêu^[4]

1. (only used in compounds) chữ Hán form of phiêu (“to float; to bleach”)
2. chữ Nôm form of xiêu (“to slant; to sag; to slope”)