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.
Radical: 85
Four-angle index: 7725
Karlgren code: 0625 f
Shijing occurrences: 26.1, 44.1, 44.2, 45.1, 45.2
