蜂

蜂 U+8702, 蜂 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8702 ← 蜁 [U+8701] CJK Unified Ideographs 蜃 → [U+8703]

Translingual

Han character

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

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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Chinese

simp. and trad.		蜂
variant forms		蠭

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (丰) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
邦	*proːŋ
梆	*proːŋ
垹	*proːŋ
肨	*pʰroːŋs, *pʰroːŋs
蚌	*broːŋʔ, *breːŋʔ
玤	*broːŋʔ
棒	*broːŋʔ
蜯	*broːŋʔ
琫	*poːŋʔ
菶	*poːŋʔ, *boːŋʔ
俸	*poːŋʔ, *boŋs
髼	*boːŋ
蜂	*boːŋ, *pʰoŋ
韸	*boːŋ
蓬	*boːŋ
篷	*boːŋ
唪	*boːŋʔ, *boŋʔ
埲	*boːŋʔ
丰	*pʰoŋ
妦	*pʰoŋ
仹	*pʰoŋ
峯	*pʰoŋ
峰	*pʰoŋ
鋒	*pʰoŋ
烽	*pʰoŋ
蠭	*pʰoŋ
桻	*pʰoŋ
莑	*pʰoŋ
夆	*pʰoŋ, *boŋ, *ɡaːds
捧	*pʰoŋʔ
逢	*boŋ
縫	*boŋ, *boŋs
漨	*boŋ
捀	*boŋ, *boŋs
奉	*boŋʔ

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

Cognate with Tibetan བུང་བ (bung ba, “bee”) (Schuessler, 2007). STEDT lists 蜂 as a Chinese comparandum under its Proto-Sino-Tibetan root *pljum (“bee, wasp”).

May be ultimately of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *ʔu(ə)ŋ ~ hu(ə)ŋ (“bee, wasp, hornet”), whence Vietnamese ong (“bee”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fēng (feng¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fung¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): phûng / fûng
• Min Bei (KCR): pó̤ng
• Min Dong (BUC): pŭng
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): phang / hong

  (Teochew, Peng'im): pang¹

• Wu (Wiktionary): fon (T1)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: fēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄥ
    • Wade–Giles: fêng¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: feng
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fong
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fung¹
    • Yale: fūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phûng
    • Hakka Romanization System: pung´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: pung¹
    • Sinological IPA: /pʰuŋ²⁴/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phûng / fûng
    • Hakka Romanization System: pung´ / fung´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: pung¹ / fung¹
    • Sinological IPA: /pʰuŋ²⁴/, /fuŋ²⁴/
• Min Bei
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: pó̤ng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɔŋ⁵⁴/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: pŭng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰuŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phang / hong
    • Tâi-lô: phang / hong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phafng, hofng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pʰaŋ⁴⁴/, /hɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰaŋ³³/, /hɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰaŋ⁴⁴/, /hɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰaŋ⁴⁴/, /hɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰaŋ⁴⁴/, /hɔŋ⁴⁴/

Note:

• phang - vernacular;
• hong - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: pang¹
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: phang
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰaŋ³³/

Wu

• (Shanghainese)
  • Wiktionary: fon (T1)
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fʊŋ⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: /buŋ/, /pʰɨoŋ/▼

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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pʰ(r)oŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*boːŋ/, /*pʰoŋ/

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 or Vespa (wasps, bees and hornets)

   蜜蜂  ―  mìfēng  ―  bee

   黃蜂 / 黄蜂  ―  huángfēng  ―  wasp

2. swarm

Compounds

Derived terms from 蜂

• 一窩蜂／一窝蜂 (yīwōfēng)
• 剔蠍撩蜂／剔蝎撩蜂
• 吐飯成蜂／吐饭成蜂
• 土蜂
• 女王蜂
• 寄生蜂
• 小蜂
• 山蜂
• 工蜂 (gōngfēng)
• 招蜂引蝶
• 捅馬蜂窩／捅马蜂窝 (tǒng mǎfēngwō)
• 掇蜂譖子／掇蜂谮子
• 撩蜂吃螫
• 撩蜂撥刺／撩蜂拨刺
• 浪蝶游蜂
• 浪蝶狂蜂
• 熊蜂 (xióngfēng)
• 狂蜂浪蝶 (kuángfēnglàngdié)
• 狼猛蜂毒
• 玄狐蜂
• 盜賊蜂起／盗贼蜂起
• 稷蜂社鼠
• 細腰蜂／细腰蜂
• 胡蜂 (húfēng)
• 葉蜂／叶蜂 (yèfēng)
• 虎頭蜂／虎头蜂
• 蛇口蜂針／蛇口蜂针
• 蜂兒／蜂儿 (fēng'ér)
• 蜂出
• 蜂刺
• 蜂午並起／蜂午并起

• 蜂子
• 蜂屯蟻聚／蜂屯蚁聚
• 蜂巢 (fēngcháo)
• 蜂巢胃
• 蜂房
• 蜂擁／蜂拥 (fēngyōng)
• 蜂擁而上／蜂拥而上 (fēngyǒng'érshàng)
• 蜂擁而至／蜂拥而至 (fēngyǒng'érzhì)
• 蜂毒
• 蜂湧／蜂涌
• 蜂湧而出／蜂涌而出
• 蜂準／蜂准
• 蜂炮
• 蜂王 (fēngwáng)
• 蜂王乳
• 蜂王漿／蜂王浆 (fēngwángjiāng)
• 蜂目豺聲／蜂目豺声 (fēngmùcháishēng)
• 蜂窩／蜂窝 (fēngwō)
• 蜂窩兒／蜂窝儿
• 蜂窩煤／蜂窝煤 (fēngwōméi)
• 蜂箱 (fēngxiāng)
• 蜂糕
• 蜂糖 (fēngtáng)
• 蜂聚
• 蜂腰
• 蜂腰削背
• 蜂膠／蜂胶 (fēngjiāo)
• 蜂舞
• 蜂蒙
• 蜂蜜 (fēngmì)
• 蜂蠆有毒／蜂虿有毒

• 蜂蠟／蜂蜡 (fēnglà)
• 蜂衙
• 蜂起 (fēngqǐ)
• 蜂農／蜂农
• 蜂門／蜂门
• 蜂集
• 蜂響器／蜂响器
• 蜂鳥／蜂鸟 (fēngniǎo)
• 蜂鳴器／蜂鸣器
• 蜂黃／蜂黄
• 蜜蜂 (mìfēng)
• 蝶粉蜂黃／蝶粉蜂黄
• 螞蜂／蚂蜂
• 螞蜂兒子／蚂蜂儿子
• 蟻聚蜂屯／蚁聚蜂屯
• 蠟蜂／蜡蜂
• 赤眼卵蜂
• 遊蜂戲蝶／游蜂戏蝶
• 遊蜂浪蝶／游蜂浪蝶
• 鋸蜂／锯蜂
• 長腳蜂／长脚蜂
• 隧蜂
• 雄蜂 (xióngfēng)
• 雌蜂
• 青蜂
• 養蜂／养蜂 (yǎngfēng)
• 馬蜂／马蜂 (mǎfēng)
• 鹽水蜂炮／盐水蜂炮
• 麇集蜂萃
• 黃蜂／黄蜂 (huángfēng)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (蜂):

• → Japanese: 蜂 (ほう) (hō)
• → Korean: 봉 (蜂, bong)
• → Vietnamese: phong (蜂)

Others:

• → Lao: ເຜິ້ງ (phœng, “bee”)
• → Thai: ผึ้ง (pʉ̂ng, “bee”)

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Japanese

Kanji

蜂

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. bee, wasp, hornet

Readings

• Go-on: ふ (fu); ふう (fū)
• Kan-on: ほう (hō, Jōyō)
• Kun: はち (hachi, 蜂, Jōyō)

Compounds

Compounds

• 蜂起 (ほうき) (hōki): rebellion, uprising, revolt

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

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

Noun

蜂 (hiragana はち, katakana ハチ, rōmaji hachi)

1. a bee, a wasp, a hornet or the like

Derived terms

• 花 (ハナ)蜂 (バチ) (hanabachi, “bee”)
• 蜜 (ミツ)蜂 (バチ) (mitsubachi, “honeybee”)
• 雀 (スズメ)蜂 (バチ) (suzumebachi), 胡 (スズメ)蜂 (バチ) (suzumebachi, “yellow jacket”)

References

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Korean

Hanja

蜂 • (bong)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 봉
  • Name (hangeul): 벌

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Vietnamese

Han character

蜂 (phong, ong)

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