Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 汎

Modern (Beijing) reading: fàn

Preclassic Old Chinese: phrams

Classic Old Chinese: phramh

Western Han Chinese: phramh

Eastern Han Chinese: phramh

Early Postclassic Chinese: phàm

Middle Postclassic Chinese: phàm

Late Postclassic Chinese: phàm

Middle Chinese: phwɨ̀m

English meaning : to float, drift, glide; ride (in a boat)

Russian meaning[s]: 1) плавать, носиться по воде; 2) широкий, обширный; 3) общий; всеобъемлющий, всеобщий, все-, пан-, вм. 泛, 氾

Comments: Somewhat later (since Late Zhou) we meet the character 氾 with the same reading and meaning 'to overflow, inundate; to disperse, float about' - which is probably the same word as 汎.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Radical: 85

Four-angle index: 7725

Karlgren code: 0625 f

Shijing occurrences: 26.1, 44.1, 44.2, 45.1, 45.2

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *phjǝ̆m

Meaning: float

Chinese: 汎 *phrǝms to float (on water), soar (in the sky); 氾 *ph(r)ams overflow, inundate (also *bhrams disperse, float about).

Tibetan: ãbjam to flow over, be diffused.

Burmese: pjam, LB *pjam to fly.

Comments: Simon 23; Coblin 81. Jinuo (LB) has prɛ.42 pointing to *plam or *pram: this may be either a reflex of prefixed *r- (cf. Chinese) or a confusion with a different root, see *lVm. Cf. Miju phiuŋ 'fly'. Cf. Austric: PAA *PVŋ 'swim', PAN *apuŋ 'float'.