Character: 芃
Modern (Beijing) reading: péng
Preclassic Old Chinese: bhǝ̄m
Classic Old Chinese: bhǝ̄m
Western Han Chinese: bhǝ̄m
Eastern Han Chinese: bhǝ̄m
Early Postclassic Chinese: bhǝ̄m
Middle Postclassic Chinese: bhǝ̄m
Late Postclassic Chinese: bhǝ̄m
Middle Chinese: buŋ
English meaning : be dense, densely growing
Russian meaning[s]: густо расти*
Comments: Also read OC *bhǝm, MC büŋ, Pek. féng id. For *bh cf. Fuzhou phuŋ2. The later character 髼 MC buŋ 'dishevelled hair' (also read as phuŋ2 in Fuzhou) is probably a variant of the same morpheme.
Radical: 140
Four-angle index: 9999
Karlgren code: 0625 g
Shijing occurrences: 54.4
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