# 芃

| 芃 | U+8283, &#33411; 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 4421$_7$, composition ⿱艹凡)
* 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
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 芃 :
| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | 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 (peng$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄆㄥˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): pung$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: péng
*** Zhuyin: ㄆㄥˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: péng
*** Wade–Giles: pʻêng$^2$
*** Yale: péng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: perng
*** Palladius: пэн (pɛn)
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰɤŋ³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: pung$^4$
*** Yale: pùhng
*** Cantonese Pinyin: pung$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: pung$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰʊŋ²¹/
* 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/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /bʱi̯uŋ/ | /bʱuŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | féng | péng |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | fung$^4$ | pung$^4$ |
* 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

(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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