| 浮 |  fú | to float / superficial / floating / unstable / movable / provisional / temporary / transient / impetuous / hollow / inflated / to exceed / superfluous / excessive / surplus |   |
| 渢 | féng | buoyant / floating | |
| 虚飘飘 | xū piāo piāo | light and airy / floating | |
| 浮云 | fú yún | floating clouds / fleeting / transient | |
| 眩晕 | xuàn yùn | vertigo / dizziness / fainting / feeling of swaying, head spinning, lack of balance or floating (e.g. from a stroke) / Taiwan pr. [xuan4 yun1] | |
| 眩晕 | xuàn yùn | vertigo / dizziness / fainting / feeling of swaying, head spinning, lack of balance or floating (e.g. from a stroke) / Taiwan pr. [xuan4 yun1] | |
| 流动人口 | liú dòng rén kǒu | transient population / floating population | |
| 游资 | yóu zī | floating capital / idle fund / hot money | |
| 沉浮 | chén fú | lit. sinking and floating / to bob up and down on water / ebb and flow / fig. rise and fall / ups and downs of fortune / vicissitudes | |
| 飘摇 | piāo yáo | floating in the wind / swaying / tottering / unstable | |
| 浮点 | fú diǎn | (computing) floating point | |
| 浮动汇率 | | floating exchange rate / flexible exchange rate | |
| 抑扬 | yì yáng | modulation (rising and falling pitch) / intonation / a cadence / to rise and fall (of a body floating in water) | |
| 滥觞 | làn shāng | lit. floating wine goblets on a stream / the origin (of some phenomenon) | |
| 荇 | xìng | yellow floating heart (Nymphoides peltatum) | |
| 飖 | yáo | floating in the air | |
| 颻 | yáo | floating in the air | |
| 浮云朝露 | fú yún zhāo lù | floating clouds, morning dew (idiom) / fig. ephemeral nature of human existence | |
| 琴剑飘零 | qín jiàn piāo líng | floating between zither and sword (idiom) / fig. wandering aimlessly with no tenured position | |
| 浮点运算 | fú diǎn yùn suàn | floating point operation | |
| 浮窗 | fú chuāng | (computing) floating window | |
| 沈复 | Shěn Fù | Shen Fu (1763-c. 1810), Qing dynasty writer, author of Six Records of a Floating Life 浮生六記|浮生六记[Fu2 Sheng1 Liu4 Ji4] | |
| 浮动地狱 | fú dòng dì yù | floating hell / slave ships | |
| 浮生六记 | fú shēng liù jì | Six Records of a Floating Life, autobiographical novel and description of Qing dynasty life by 沈復|沈复[Shen3 Fu4], published 1808 | |
| 漂雷 | piāo léi | floating mine | |
| 无党派投票人 | wú dǎng pài tóu piào rén | floating voter / non-partisan voter | |
| 荇菜 | xìng cài | yellow floating heart (Nymphoides peltatum) | |
| 云霭 | yún ǎi | floating clouds | |
| 青荇 | qīng xìng | waterlily / floating heart (Nymphoides peltatum) | |
| 飐飐 | zhǎn zhǎn | seems as if floating | |
| 飘尘 | piāo chén | floating dust / atmospheric particles | |
| 浮式生产、储存、卸载设施 | | floating production, storage and offloading facility | |
| 浮桥飘浮部 | fú qiáo piāo fú bù | interior section / centre section / floating section / river pontoon unit | |
| 漂浮水稻 | | floating rice | |
| 浮式储存和卸载装置 | | floating storage and offloading units | |
| 支援舰 | zhī yuán jiàn | support ship / floating base | |
| 浮动基地 | | support ship / floating base | |
| 浮式储存和再气化装置 | | floating storage and regasification unit | |
| 每秒浮点运算次数，浮点运算率 | | flops / Floating Point Operations Per Second | |
| 悬浮窗 | xuán fú chuāng | (computing) floating window | |
| 浮动窗口 | fú dòng chuāng kǒu | (computing) floating window | |
| 沧海一粟 | cāng hǎi - yī sù | lit. one grain floating on the ocean (idiom) / fig. a drop in the ocean | |
