Memory phrase for the character: 漂

漂

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Meaning

float (on the water), drift, waft

Pronunciation

 HYŌ
tadayou

Explanation

 Left: water 氵, right: vote, ballot 票 (In the west 西 you show 示 at a vote.)

Mnemonic
 
Water 'voted' to let things float.

Radicals

氵 waterThe radical sanzui 氵 is a short form of water 水
票 vote, ballotIt is flat 一, there can be two || next to each other and it is flat 口 and you show 示 it: The note at a ballot.
西 westThe upper stroke 一 can be seen as the horizon, with variations of sun 日 and two legs 儿, which stand for a downward motion: Below the horizon sinks the sun (at sunset) in the west.
礻 to show, altarThe radical shimesu is a simplification of "to show" 示, which is a pictogram of an altar.
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 Vocabulary

漂う ただよう  to drift about, to float, to hang in air

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