qiān

exuberant and vigorous foliage

A thousand  plants  also provides the pronunciation

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

千 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

qiān

  

thousand

Evolution

芊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
芊 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

qiān

exuberant and vigorous foliage; green; luxuriant growth