qiān

exuberant and vigorous foliage

A thousand  plants  also provides the pronunciation

Components

Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass
SoundMeaning component
qiān thousand

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangsn̥ʰiːn
sn̥ʰiːns
Unicodetsen

說文解字

艸盛也。从艸千聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica