英语 to give birth to, to bring and to rear (interchangeable 蕃) to increase; to multiply; to propagate
【五音集韻】附袁切,音煩。生養蕃也。
艸茂也。从艸番聲。甫煩切
(蕃)艸茂也。左氏傳曰。其必蕃昌。从艸。番聲。甫煩切。十四部。籒文作?。