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蜂

蜂

Translingual

Han character

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

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 蜂

Glyph origin

Simplified from 蠭. Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *boːŋ, *pʰoŋ) : semantic 虫 ‎(“insect”) + phonetic 夆 ‎(OC *pʰoŋ, *boŋ, *ɡaːds) – a kind of insect.

Etymology

Sino-Tibetan; cognate with Tibetan བུང་བ ‎(bung ba, “bee”). May be ultimately of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *ʔu(ə)ŋ ~ hu(ə)ŋ ‎(“bee, wasp, hornet”), whence Vietnamese ong ‎(“bee”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蜂 蜂
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 並 (3) 滂 (2)
Final (韻) 東 (1) 鍾 (7)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I III
Fanqie 薄紅切 敷容切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /buŋ/ /pʰɨoŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /buŋ/ /pʰioŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /buŋ/ /pʰioŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /bəwŋ/ /pʰuawŋ/
Li
Rong		 /buŋ/ /pʰioŋ/
Wang
Li		 /buŋ/ /pʰĭwoŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱuŋ/ /pʰi̯woŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 péng fēng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蜂
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 fēng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ phjowng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*pʰ(r)oŋ/
English bee

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 蜂 蜂
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 3214 3226
Phonetic
component		 丰 丰
Rime
group		 東 東
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 蓬 峯
Old
Chinese		 /*boːŋ/ /*pʰoŋ/
Notes 同蠭

Definitions

蜂

  1. Apoidea (wasps and bees)
  2. swarm

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (蜂):

Others:

Japanese

Kanji

蜂

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. bee, wasp, hornet

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
蜂
はち
Grade: S
kun'yomi

/pati/ → /fati/ → /fat͡ɕi/ → /hat͡ɕi/

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

Pronunciation

Noun

蜂 ‎(hiragana はち, katakana ハチ, romaji hachi)

  1. a bee, a wasp, a hornet or the like
  2. (zoology) a wasp

Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

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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Vietnamese

Han character

蜂 (phong, ong)

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