飘
piāo HSK7

whirlwind

飘 飄 piāo frequency
variant 飃
to float verb
To float in the air, drift about, or flutter; to waft (of scents).

一张纸飘了下来。

yī zhāng zhǐ piāo le xià lai.

A piece of paper floated down.

果然，新鲜煮好的咖啡的香味从厨房里飘了出来。

guǒ​rán, xīn​xian zhǔ hǎo de kā​fēi de xiāng​wèi cóng chú​fáng li piāo le chū lái.

Sure enough, the aroma of fresh-brewed coffee drifted out from the kitchen.

unsteady
Light and unsteady; wobbly or shaky in one's movements.
frivolous
Frivolous or lacking in steadiness; superficial in one's work or character.
飘 飄 piāo
Piao
A Chinese surname.
whirlwind
A whirlwind; (literary) to be blown up or tossed by the wind.
Gone with the Wind
The Chinese title for the American novel and film "Gone with the Wind".

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,527th most common 69.0 per million
Movie subtitles
2,114th most common 16.1 per million appears in 7% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
8.79 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
30.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
飄
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+98D8

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