芃

芃 U+8283, 芃 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8283 ← 节 [U+8282] CJK Unified Ideographs 芄 → [U+8284]

Translingual

Han character

芃 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿竹弓戈 (THNI), four-corner 4421₇, composition ⿱艹凡)

1. luxuriant growth

Derived characters

• 𢭾, 𣒾, 𥟌

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1017, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30662
• Dae Jaweon: page 1476, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3175, character 12
• Unihan data for U+8283

Chinese

trad.		芃
simp. #		芃

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 芃
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (凡) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
嵐	*b·ruːm
葻	*b·uːm
釩	*pʰomʔ
汎	*pʰoms, *bum
凡	*bom
帆	*bom, *boms
颿	*bom, *boms
軓	*bomʔ
梵	*bloms, *bum
芃	*boːŋ, *bum
風	*plum, *plums
飌	*plum
楓	*plum
猦	*plum
偑	*plum
檒	*plum
瘋	*plum
諷	*plums
堸	*blum
渢	*blum
鳳	*bums

艹 (“grass”) + 凡 – growth (of plants, grass).

Etymology

According to STEDT, possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-bʷam ~ s-bʷap (“to swell; swollen, fat, thick; rounded part, mountain, hill”); see 胖 (OC *pʰaːns, “fat (adjective)”) for more.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): péng (peng²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pung⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: péng
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: péng
    • Wade–Giles: pʻêng²
    • Yale: péng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: perng
    • Palladius: пэн (pɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɤŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: pung⁴
    • Yale: pùhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pung⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: pung⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰʊŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: bjuwng, buwng

Rime
Character	芃	芃
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	並 (3)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	東 (2)	東 (1)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	房戎切	薄紅切
Baxter	bjuwng	buwng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bɨuŋ/	/buŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/biuŋ/	/buŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/biuŋ/	/buŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/buwŋ/	/bəwŋ/
Li Rong	/biuŋ/	/buŋ/
Wang Li	/bĭuŋ/	/buŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱi̯uŋ/	/bʱuŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	féng	péng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fung4	pung4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]ˤ[o]m/

  (Zhengzhang): /*boːŋ/, /*bum/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	芃
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	péng
Middle Chinese	‹ buwng ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]ˁ[o]m/
English	luxuriant, bushy, thick
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	芃	芃
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	2920	2931
Phonetic component	凡	凡
Rime group	東	侵
Rime subdivision	0	3
Corresponding MC rime	蓬	馮
Old Chinese	/*boːŋ/	/*bum/

Definitions

芃

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Japanese

Kanji

芃

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ほう (hō)、ぶ (bu)、ふう (fū)
• Kun: さかん (sakan)

Vietnamese

Han character

芃: Hán Nôm readings: bồng, bông, von

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