蜂巢

Chinese

		bee; wasp	nest
simp. and trad. (蜂巢)		蜂	巢

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fēngcháo

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄥ ㄔㄠˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fung¹ caau⁴
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): fung¹ sau²
• Jin (Wiktionary): feng¹ cau¹
• Northern Min (KCR): póng-chě

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fēngcháo
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄥ ㄔㄠˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fongcháo
    • Wade–Giles: fêng¹-chʻao²
    • Yale: fēng-cháu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fengchaur
    • Palladius: фэнчао (fɛnčao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɤŋ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɑʊ̯³⁵/
    • Homophones:

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      edit edit 蜂巢 風潮／风潮

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fung¹ caau⁴
    • Yale: fūng chàauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fung¹ tsaau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: fung¹ cao⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fʊŋ⁵⁵ t͡sʰaːu̯²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: fung¹ sau²
    • Sinological IPA: /fʊŋ⁴⁴⁻³⁵ sau¹¹/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: feng¹ cau¹
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /fə̃ŋ¹¹ t͡sʰau¹¹/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: póng-chě
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɔŋ⁵⁴ t͡sʰe²¹/

Noun

蜂巢

1. honeycomb (structure of cells made by bees)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 蜂窩 (“honeycomb, beehive”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		蜂窩, 蜂巢
Mandarin	Harbin	蜂窩
	Yantai (Muping)	蜂子窩
	Jinan	蜂窩, 蜂子窩
	Luoyang	蜂窩
	Wanrong	蜂窩
	Yinchuan	蜂窩
	Ürümqi	蜂窩
	Chengdu	蜂窩, 蜂子窩窩
	Guiyang	蜂窩
	Xuzhou	蜂窩
	Yangzhou	蜂窩
	Nanjing	蜂窩
Cantonese	Guangzhou	蜂竇
	Hong Kong	蜂竇, 蜂巢, 蜜蜂竇
	Dongguan	蜂竇
Gan	Lichuan	蜂藪
	Pingxiang	蜂子窠
Hakka	Meixian	蜂巢, 蜂竇
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	蜂竇
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	蜂竇
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	蜂竇
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	蜂竇
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	蜂竇
Huizhou	Jixi	蜂窠
Jin	Taiyuan	蜂巢, 蜂窩
	Xinzhou	蜂兒窩
Northern Min	Jian'ou	蜂巢
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	蜂宿, 蜂窩
Southern Min	Xiamen	蜂岫
	Quanzhou	蜂岫
	Jinjiang	蜂岫
	Zhangzhou	蜂岫
	Tainan	蜂岫 GT
	Manila (Hokkien)	蜂岫
	Shantou	蜂岫, 蜂竇
	Leizhou	蜂岫
	Haikou	蜂岫
Puxian Min	Putian	蜂岫
	Putian (Donghai)	蜂岫
	Putian (Jiangkou)	蜂岫
	Putian (Nanri)	蜂岫
	Xianyou	蜂岫
	Xianyou (Fengting)	蜂岫
	Xianyou (Youyang)	蜂岫
Zhongshan Min	Sanxiang	蜂竇
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	蜂竇
Wu	Shanghai	蜂窠
	Shanghai (Chongming)	蜂窠
	Wenzhou	蜂窠
	Jinhua	蜂窠
Xiang	Changsha	蜂窠子
	Loudi	蜂窠
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)

Derived terms

• 蜂巢式行動電話系統／蜂巢式行动电话系统
• 蜂巢胃 (fēngcháowèi)

 

Japanese

Kanji in this term
蜂	巢
はち Grade: S	す Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 蜂巢 – see the following entry.

【蜂巣はちす】 [noun] beehive (home of bees)

(This term, 蜂巢, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)