飘
piāo · HSK 7
blow/drift about
🍃 piāo sounds like pyaw, the leaf that goes weeee on the wind
飘 pairs 票 (piào, ticket) for sound with 风 (wind, on the right) for meaning. So it is the wind-sound word: anything light enough to drift, flutter, or blow about on a breeze.
飘 — 票 piào (phonetic) + 風 wind (semantic)
飘 is a phono-semantic compound. The right side 風 (wind) gives the meaning, since the character describes things being carried or blown by the wind. The left side 票 supplies the sound, close to modern piāo. Original sense: wind-blown, fluttering, drifting.