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蜂

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

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TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

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

ReferencesEdit

  • 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

ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.
 蜂
alt. forms 蠭

Glyph originEdit

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.

EtymologyEdit

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”).

PronunciationEdit

Note:
  • phang - vernacular;
  • hong - literary.
  • Wu
    • 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

    DefinitionsEdit

    蜂

    1. Apoidea (wasps and bees)
    2. swarm

    CompoundsEdit

    Derived terms from 蜂

    DescendantsEdit

    Sino-Xenic (蜂):
    • Japanese: 蜂 (ほう) (hō)
    • Korean: 봉 (蜂, bong)
    • Vietnamese: phong (蜂)

    Others:

    JapaneseEdit

    KanjiEdit

    蜂

    (common “Jōyō” kanji)

    1. bee, wasp, hornet

    ReadingsEdit

    CompoundsEdit

    Compounds

    EtymologyEdit

     
    Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
    Wikipedia ja
    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”).

    PronunciationEdit

    NounEdit

    蜂 (hiragana はち, katakana ハチ, rōmaji hachi)

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

    Derived termsEdit

    ReferencesEdit

    1. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

    KoreanEdit

    HanjaEdit

    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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    VietnameseEdit

    Han characterEdit

    蜂 (phong, ong)

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