繁茂

Chinese

		complicated; many; in great numbers	luxuriant
trad. (繁茂)		繁	茂
simp. #(繁茂)		繁	茂
alternative forms		蕃茂

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fánmào

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄢˊ ㄇㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faan⁴ mau⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hoân-biō / hoân-mō͘ / hoân-bō͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fánmào
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄢˊ ㄇㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fánmào
    • Wade–Giles: fan²-mao⁴
    • Yale: fán-màu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: farnmaw
    • Palladius: фаньмао (fanʹmao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fän³⁵ mɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: faan⁴ mau⁶
    • Yale: fàahn mauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faan⁴ mau⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: fan⁴ meo⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /faːn²¹ mɐu̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoân-biō
    • Tâi-lô: huân-biō
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoanbioi
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /huan²⁴⁻²² bio⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoân-mō͘
    • Tâi-lô: huân-mōo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoanmo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /huan²⁴⁻²² mɔ̃²²/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoân-bō͘
    • Tâi-lô: huân-bōo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoanbo
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /huan¹³⁻²² bɔ²²/

Adjective

繁茂

1. lush; luxuriant

Synonyms

• 幽鬱／幽郁 (yōuyù) (archaic)
• 肥美 (féiměi)
• 芊綿／芊绵 (qiānmián) (literary, of vegetation)
• 茂 (literary, or in compounds)
• 茂盛 (màoshèng)
• 萋萋 (qīqī) (literary)
• 菶菶 (běngběng) (literary)
• 葳蕤 (wēiruí) (literary)
• 豐茂／丰茂 (fēngmào)
• 趒 (Hokkien)
• 軫軫／轸轸 (zhěnzhěn) (literary)

 

Japanese

Kanji in this term
繁	茂
はん Grade: S	も Grade: S
kan’on	goon

Alternative spelling
繁茂 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) は​んも [háꜜǹmò] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [hã̠mːo̞]

Noun

繁(はん)茂(も) • (hanmo) 

1. thick growth

Verb

繁(はん)茂(も)する • (hanmo suru) intransitive suru (stem 繁(はん)茂(も)し (hanmo shi), past 繁(はん)茂(も)した (hanmo shita))

1. to grow thick

Conjugation

Conjugation of "繁茂する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	繁茂し	はんもし	hanmo shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	繁茂し	はんもし	hanmo shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	繁茂する	はんもする	hanmo suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	繁茂する	はんもする	hanmo suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	繁茂すれ	はんもすれ	hanmo sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	繁茂せよ¹ 繁茂しろ²	はんもせよ¹ はんもしろ²	hanmo seyo¹ hanmo shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	繁茂される	はんもされる	hanmo sareru
Causative	繁茂させる 繁茂さす	はんもさせる はんもさす	hanmo saseru hanmo sasu
Potential	繁茂できる	はんもできる	hanmo dekiru
Volitional	繁茂しよう	はんもしよう	hanmo shiyō
Negative	繁茂しない	はんもしない	hanmo shinai
Negative continuative	繁茂せず	はんもせず	hanmo sezu
Formal	繁茂します	はんもします	hanmo shimasu
Perfective	繁茂した	はんもした	hanmo shita
Conjunctive	繁茂して	はんもして	hanmo shite
Hypothetical conditional	繁茂すれば	はんもすれば	hanmo sureba
¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative