"Drift" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 漂浮 | piāo fú | to float / to hover / to drift (also fig., to lead a wandering life) / to rove / showy / superficial |   |
| 飘逸 | piāo yì | graceful / elegant / to drift / to float | |
| 漂泊 | piāo bó | (of a boat) to float / to drift / to lie at anchor / (fig.) to roam / to lead a wandering existence | |
| 飘荡 | piāo dàng | to drift / to wave / to float on the waves / to flutter in the wind | |
| 飘动 | piāo dòng | to float / to drift | |
| 飘散 | piāo sàn | to waft (through the air) / to drift | |
| 漂移 | piāo yí | to drift | |
| 浮游 | fú yóu | to float / to drift / to wander / variant of 蜉蝣[fu2 you2] | |
| 颠沛流离 | diān pèi liú lí | homeless and miserable (idiom) / to wander about in a desperate plight / to drift | |
| 滑移 | huá yí | to slip / to drift | |
| 漂 |  piāo | to float / to drift | |
| 飘移 | piāo yí | to drift | |
| 漂游 | piāo yóu | drift | |
| 滑胎 | huá tāi | drift (car racing technique) / (TCM) recurrent miscarriage / habitual abortion | |
| 漂走 | piào zǒu | to float away / to drift / to be swept off | |
| 漂走 | piāo zǒu | to float away / to drift / to be swept off | |
| 流浪 | liú làng | to drift about / to wander / to roam / nomadic / homeless / unsettled (e.g. population) / vagrant | |
| 浮动 | fú dòng | to float and drift / unstable | |
| 流入 | liú rù | to flow into / to drift into / influx / inflow | |
| 漂流 | piāo liú | to float on the current / to drift along or about / rafting | |
| 游离 | yóu lí | to disassociate / to drift away / to leave (a collective) / free (component) | |
| 疏远 | shū yuǎn | to drift apart / to become estranged / to alienate / estrangement | |
| 随波逐流 | suí bō zhú liú | to drift with the waves and go with the flow (idiom) / to follow the crowd blindly | |
| 浮沉 | fú chén | ups and downs (of life etc) / to drift along / to sink and emerge | |
| 随波 | suí bō | to drift with the waves | |
| 放任自流 | fàng rèn zì liú | to let sb do whatever they want / to indulge / to give free reins to / to let things slide / to drift aimlessly / laissez-faire | |
| 飘拂 | piāo fú | to drift lightly | |
| 苟且偷生 | gǒu qiě tōu shēng | to drift and live without purpose (idiom) / to drag out an ignoble existence | |
| 流网 | liú wǎng | drift net (fishing) | |
| 流 | liú | to flow / to disseminate / to circulate or spread / to move or drift / to degenerate / to banish or send into exile / stream of water or sth resembling one / class, rate or grade | |
| 混 | hùn | to mix / to mingle / muddled / to drift along / to muddle along / to pass for / to get along with sb / thoughtless / reckless | |
| 浮家泛宅 | fú jiā fàn zhái | lit. to live on a boat / to drift from place to place (idiom) | |
| 浪迹江湖 | làng jì jiāng hú | to roam far and wide / to drift with the wind | |
| 韦格纳 | Wéi gé nà | Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), German meteorologist and geophysicist, the originator of the theory of continental drift / also written 魏格納|魏格纳 | |
| 大陆漂移 | dà lù piāo yí | continental drift | |
| 偏角 | piān jiǎo | angle of drift (navigation) / deflection (from course) / angle of divergence | |
| 偏转角 | piān zhuǎn jiǎo | angle of drift (navigation) / deflection (from course) / angle of divergence | |
| 苟存 | gǒu cún | to drift through life | |
| 讨生活 | tǎo shēng huó | to eke out a living / to live from hand to mouth / to drift aimlessly | |
| 随波逊流 | suí bō xùn liú | to drift with the waves and yield to the flow (idiom) / to follow the crowd blindly | |
| 魏格纳 | Wèi gé nà | Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), German meteorologist and geophysicist, the originator of the theory of continental drift | |
| 块冰 | drift ice / ice pack / pack ice; | | |
| 沉积漂移 | sediment drift / sedimentary drift | | |
| 农药飘失 | nóng yào piāo shī | pesticide drift | |
| 拖缆漂移 | streamer feathering / feathering / streamer drift / cable drift | | |
| 漂移轨道 | drift orbit | | |
| 轨道漂移 | orbit drift | | |
| 北太平洋漂流 | North Pacific drift | | |
| 飘忽不定 | piāo hū bù dìng | to drift without a resting place (idiom) / roving / errant / vagrant / erratic | |
