浮水

fúshuǐ

verb

Meanings

1 to swim (literary/dialectal)
2 to float on water

Characters

Examples

这鸭子在池塘里浮水。

Zhè yāzi zài chítáng lǐ fúshuǐ.

The duck is floating on the pond.

他从小就会浮水。

Tā cóngxiǎo jiù huì fúshuǐ.

He's known how to swim since he was little.

Tips

register

浮水 is older / regional wording for swimming — Xinhua defines it as 在水里游 ('swimming in water'). In modern Mandarin most speakers use 游泳. In some northern dialects 浮水 also means to doggy-paddle or just keep yourself afloat without proper strokes.

Stroke Order

浮 fú

水 shuǐ