蜂

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 夆 – a kind of insect.

Han character

蜂 (radical 142 虫+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 中戈竹水十 (LIHEJ), four-corner 5715₄)

1. bee, wasp, hornet

References

• KangXi: page 1084, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33088
• Dae Jaweon: page 1551, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2857, character 7
• Unihan data for U+8702

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Cantonese

Hanzi

蜂 (Jyutping fung1, Yale fung1)

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Japanese

Kanji

蜂

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. bee, wasp, hornet

Readings

• Kan’on: ほう (hō)
• Kun: はち (hachi)

Etymology

Kanji in this term

蜂

はち Grade: S

kun'yomi

From Old Japanese. Possibly cognate with Korean 벌 (beol, “bee, wasp, hornet”).

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) はち [hàchí] (Heiban - [0])
• IPA^(key): [ha̠t͡ɕi]

Noun

蜂 (hiragana はち, romaji hachi)

1. a bee
2. a wasp
3. a hornet

See also

• 蜜蜂 (みつばち) (mitsubachi): a honeybee
• 雀蜂 (すずめばち) (suzumebachi), 胡蜂 (すずめばち) (suzumebachi): a wasp, a yellow jacket

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Korean

Hanja

蜂 (bong)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 봉 (revised: bong, McCune-Reischauer: pong, Yale: pong)

• Name (hangeul): 벌 (revised: beol, McCune-Reischauer: pŏl, Yale: pel)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

蜂 (Pinyin fēng (feng1), Wade-Giles feng¹)

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Compounds

• 蜂巢
• 蜂刺
• 蜂毒
• 蜂房
• 蜂糕
• 蜂集
• 蜂聚
• 蜂蜡
• 蜂蜜
• 蜂鸣器
• 蜂鸟
• 蜂农
• 蜂起
• 蜂王
• 蜂王浆
• 蜂窝
• 蜂窝煤
• 蜂舞
• 蜂箱
• 蜂响器
• 蜂拥
• 蜂子

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Vietnamese

Han character

蜂 (phong, ong)

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