漂
piàopiāopiǎo HSK2

float

漂 piào frequency
[beautiful] adjective
(bound form) used in the word 漂亮 piào​liang meaning beautiful or elegant
to skip out
to skip out on a bill or debt; to fail to pay what is owed
漂 piāo
to float verb
to float on the surface of a liquid; to drift with the wind or current

它们的木筏正漂向大海。

tā​men de mù​fá zhèng piāo xiàng dà​hǎi.

Their raft is drifting out to sea.

漂 piǎo
to bleach verb
to bleach using chemicals to make fibers or textiles white
to rinse
to rinse with water
to process herbs
(in Chinese medicine) to soak or rinse medicinal herbs in water to remove toxicity or impurities

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Has erhua variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,568th most common 64.5 per million
Movie subtitles
562nd most common 250.0 per million appears in 64% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.41 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
7.74 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+6F02

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)