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

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
Note:
  • phang - vernacular;
  • hong - literary.
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 or Vespa (wasps, bees and hornets)
    蜜蜂  ―  mìfēng  ―  bee
    黃蜂 / 黄蜂  ―  huángfēng  ―  wasp
  2. swarm

Compounds
Derived terms from 蜂

Descendants
Sino-Xenic (蜂):

Others:

Japanese

Kanji
蜂

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. bee, wasp, hornet

Readings

Compounds
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, rōmaji 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

Korean

Hanja

蜂 • (bong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蜂 (phong, ong)

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