浮
浮 — Floating
floating, float, rise to surface
On’yomiフ (fu)
Kun’yomiうく (uku)
Kun’yomiうかれる (ukareru)
Kun’yomiうかぶ (ukabu)
Kun’yomiうかべる (ukaberu)
Stroke order (10 strokes)
Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).
Common words using 浮
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 浮き彫り | うきぼり ukibori | relief; embossed carving; bringing to the fore |
| 浮揚 | ふよう fuyou | floating (e.g. in air, water); floatation; buoyancy |
| 浮動票 | ふどうひょう fudouhyou | swing vote |
| 浮上 | ふじょう fujou | surfacing; rising to the surface; emerging |
| 浮世絵 | うきよえ ukiyoe | ukiyo-e; ukiyoe; Edo-period woodblock print |
| 浮かび上がる | うかびあがる ukabiagaru | to rise to the surface; to come to the front; to emerge (e.g. from obscurity) |
Study notes
浮 is a JLPT N3 kanji written with 10 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #776 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).
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