漂移
piāo yí
Pinyin

Definition

漂移
 - 
piāo yí
  1. to drift

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

漂亮
piào liang
  1. 1 pretty
  2. 2 beautiful
移动
yí dòng
  1. 1 to move
  2. 2 movement
  3. 3 migration
  4. 4 mobile
  5. 5 portable
坚定不移
jiān dìng bù yí
  1. 1 unswerving
  2. 2 unflinching
推移
tuī yí
  1. 1 (of time) to elapse or pass
  2. 2 (of a situation) to develop or evolve
漂
piāo
  1. 1 to float
  2. 2 to drift
漂泊
piāo bó
  1. 1 to drift (in the tide)
  2. 2 to rove
  3. 3 to lead a wandering existence
  4. 4 drifter
  5. 5 wanderer
漂流
piāo liú
  1. 1 to float on the current
  2. 2 to drift along or about
  3. 3 rafting
漂浮
piāo fú
  1. 1 to float
  2. 2 to hover
  3. 3 to drift (also fig., to lead a wandering life)
  4. 4 to rove
  5. 5 showy
  6. 6 superficial
漂移
piāo yí
  1. 1 to drift
移
yí
  1. 1 to move
  2. 2 to shift
  3. 3 to change
  4. 4 to alter
  5. 5 to remove
移植
yí zhí
  1. 1 to transplant
移民
yí mín
  1. 1 to immigrate
  2. 2 to migrate
  3. 3 emigrant
  4. 4 immigrant
转移
zhuǎn yí
  1. 1 to shift
  2. 2 to divert or distract (attention etc)
  3. 3 to change
  4. 4 to transform
  5. 5 metastasis (medicine)
  6. 6 to evacuate (people)
不移
bù yí
  1. 1 steadfast
  2. 2 inalienable
位移
wèi yí
  1. 1 displacement (vector)
偏移
piān yí
  1. 1 displacement
  2. 2 deviation
  3. 3 offset
北漂
Běi piāo
  1. 1 migrant worker living and working in Beijing without a residence permit
寸步难移
cùn bù nán yí
  1. 1 see 寸步難行|寸步难行[cùn bù nán xíng]
平移
píng yí
  1. 1 translation (geometry)
愚公移山
yú gōng yí shān
  1. 1 the old man moves mountains (idiom); fig. where there's a will, there's a way

Idioms (10)

愚公移山
yú gōng yí shān
  1. 1 the old man moves mountains (idiom); fig. where there's a will, there's a way
本性难移
běn xìng nán yí
  1. 1 It is hard to change one's essential nature (idiom). You can't change who you are.
  2. 2 Can the leopard change his spots? (Jeremiah 13:23)
款语移时
kuǎn yǔ yí shí
  1. 1 to talk slowly and in depth (idiom)
江山易改，本性难移
jiāng shān yì gǎi , běn xìng nán yí
  1. 1 it is easier to change mountains and rivers than to alter one's character (idiom)
  2. 2 you can't change who you are
  3. 3 Can the leopard change his spots?
游移不定
yóu yí bù dìng
  1. 1 to oscillate without pause (idiom)
  2. 2 to fluctuate
  3. 3 (of thoughts) to wander
  4. 4 to waver
确凿不移
què záo bù yí
  1. 1 established and irrefutable (idiom)
移情别恋
yí qíng bié liàn
  1. 1 change of affection, shift of love (idiom); to change one's feelings to another love
  2. 2 to fall in love with sb else
移花接木
yí huā jiē mù
  1. 1 lit. to graft flowers onto a tree
  2. 2 to surreptitiously substitute one thing for another (idiom)
血流漂杵
xuè liú piāo chǔ
  1. 1 enough blood flowing to float pestles (idiom); rivers of blood
  2. 2 blood bath
风雨漂摇
fēng yǔ piāo yáo
  1. 1 tossed about by the wind and rain (idiom)
  2. 2 (of a situation) unstable

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