繁茂

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
• Min Nan (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)⁺
    • Jyutping: faan⁴ mau⁶
    • Yale: fàahn mauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faan⁴ mau⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: fan⁴ meo⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /faːn²¹ mɐu̯²²/
• Min Nan
  • (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

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肥美 (féiměi) 茂 (mào) (literary, or in compounds) 茂盛 (màoshèng) 菶菶 (běngběng) (literary) 萋萋 (qīqī) (literary)

葳蕤 (wēiruí) (literary) 趒 (Min Nan) 幽鬱／幽郁 (yōuyù) (archaic) 芊綿／芊绵 (qiānmián) (literary, of vegetation) 豐茂／丰茂 (fēngmào)

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Japanese

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

Alternative spelling
繁茂 (kyūjitai)

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.)

Stem forms
Imperfective (未然形)	繁茂し	はんもし	hanmo shi
Continuative (連用形)	繁茂し	はんもし	hanmo shi
Terminal (終止形)	繁茂する	はんもする	hanmo suru
Attributive (連体形)	繁茂する	はんもする	hanmo suru
Hypothetical (仮定形)	繁茂すれ	はんもすれ	hanmo sure
Imperative (命令形)	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