U+8702, 蜂
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8702

[U+8701]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8703]

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

  • 𦾌

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
2nd round simp.
alternative forms

Glyph origin

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

Etymology

Cognate with Tibetan བུང་བ (bung ba, bee) (Schuessler, 2007). STEDT lists 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


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

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (3) (2)
Final () (1) (7)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I III
Fanqie
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
pung4 fung1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 3214 3226
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*boːŋ/ /*pʰoŋ/
Notes

Definitions

  1. Apoidea or Vespa (wasps, bees and hornets)
       fēng   bee; honeybee
       huángfēng   wasp
  2. (specifically) honey bee
       fēng   honey
  3. swarm

Synonyms

Compounds

Descendants

  • Proto-Southwestern Tai: *pʰɤŋꟲ (bee; beeswax)

References

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. bee, wasp, hornet

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

(hachi): a bee collecting pollen.
Kanji in this term
はち
Grade: S
kun’yomi

/pati//fati//fat͡ɕi//hat͡ɕi/

From Old Japanese.[1] First cited to the Kojiki of 712 CE.[1] Compare Korean (beol, bee, wasp, hornet).

Pronunciation

Noun

(はち) (hachi) 

  1. [from 712] a bee, a wasp, a hornet or the like

Derived terms

References

  1. 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese (MC pʰɨoŋ).

Historical Readings
Dongguk Jeongun Reading
Dongguk Jeongun, 1448포ᇰ (Yale: phwòng)
Middle Korean
TextEumhun
Gloss (hun)Reading
Hunmong Jahoe, 1527벌〯 (Yale: pěl)보ᇰ (Yale: pwòng)

Pronunciation

Hanja

Wikisource , eumhun (beol bong)

  1. Hanja form? of (bee). [affix]

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典.

Okinawan

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. bee; wasp; hornet

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
はちゃー
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Cognate with Japanese (hachi, bee).

Noun

(hiragana はちゃー, rōmaji hachā)

  1. bee; wasp; hornet

References

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Việt readings: phong
: Nôm readings: ong

  1. Nôm form of ong (honey).
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