Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 蓬

Modern (Beijing) reading: péng

Preclassic Old Chinese: bhōŋ

Classic Old Chinese: bhōŋ

Western Han Chinese: bhōŋ

Eastern Han Chinese: bhōŋ

Early Postclassic Chinese: bhōŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: bhōŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: bhwōŋ

Middle Chinese: buŋ

English meaning : a k. of tumble weed

Russian meaning[s]: бот. полынь индийская (Artemisia indica); перен. а) растрепанный, всклокоченный; путаница; б) бедный (о жилище)

Comments: For *bh- cf. Xiamen phaŋ², Chaozhou phoŋ², Fuzhou phuŋ². Also used for a homonymous *bhōŋ 'be luxuriant' (perhaps related to 豐 *phuŋ id.)

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 140

Four-angle index: 6510

Karlgren code: 1197 y

Shijing occurrences: 25.2_

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