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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

飘荡

piāodàng

to drift

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to drift

02

to wave

03

to float on the waves

04

to flutter in the wind

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 飘荡 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 飘荡 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

她的一头金发在夏日的微风中飘荡。tā de yī tóu jīn fà zài xià rì de wēi fēng zhōng piāo dàng。

Her golden hair floats in the summer breeze.

玫瑰的香气在房间的每一个角落里飘荡著。méi guī de xiāng qì zài fáng jiān de měi yí gè jiǎo luò lǐ piāo dàng zhù。

The perfume of roses filled the room.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 飘荡.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 飘荡.

Directly before

  • 角落里飘荡1
  • 中飘荡1

Directly after

  • 飘荡著1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 飘荡

What does 飘荡 mean in Chinese?

飘荡 (piāodàng) means to drift.

How do you pronounce 飘荡?

飘荡 is pronounced piāodàng.

Is 飘荡 an HSK word?

飘荡 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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