蜂蜜

Chinese
bee; wasp honey
simp. and trad.
(蜂蜜)		 蜂 蜜
anagram 蜜蜂

Pronunciation
Rime
Character 蜂 蜂 蜜
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3) 滂 (2) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 東 (1) 鍾 (7) 質 (48)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division (等) I III III
Fanqie 薄紅切 敷容切 彌畢切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /buŋ/ /pʰɨoŋ/ /miɪt̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /buŋ/ /pʰioŋ/ /mit̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /buŋ/ /pʰioŋ/ /mjet̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /bəwŋ/ /pʰuawŋ/ /mit̚/
Li
Rong		 /buŋ/ /pʰioŋ/ /miĕt̚/
Wang
Li		 /buŋ/ /pʰĭwoŋ/ /mĭĕt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱuŋ/ /pʰi̯woŋ/ /mi̯ĕt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 péng fēng mì

Noun

蜂蜜

  1. honey (sweet fluid produced from plant nectar by bees)

Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 蜂蜜 (“honey”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 蜂蜜
Mandarin Beijing 蜂蜜
Taiwan 蜂蜜
Jinan 蜂蜜, 蜜
Xi'an 蜂蜜, 蜂糖
Wuhan 蜂蜜
Chengdu 蜂糖, 蜂蜜
Yangzhou 蜂蜜, 蜜
Hefei 蜂蜜
Malaysia 蜂蜜, 蜜糖
Singapore 蜂蜜, 蜜糖
Cantonese Guangzhou 蜜糖
Hong Kong 蜜糖
Taishan 蜜糖
Yangjiang 蜜糖
Gan Nanchang 蜜糖, 蜜
Hakka Meixian 蜂糖
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 蜂糖
Liudui (S. Sixian) 蜂糖
Hsinchu (Hailu) 蜂糖
Dongshi (Dabu) 蜂糖
Hsinchu (Raoping) 蜂糖
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 蜂糖
Jin Taiyuan 蜂蜜, 蜜
Min Bei Jian'ou 蜂糖
Min Dong Fuzhou 蜂蜜, 蜜
Min Nan Xiamen 蜂蜜, 蜜
Quanzhou 蜂蜜, 蜜
Zhangzhou 蜂蜜, 蜜
Taipei 蜂蜜, 蜜
Penang 蜜糖
Chaozhou 蜂蜜
Wu Shanghai 蜜糖
Suzhou 蜜糖, 蜜
Wenzhou 蜜, 蜂蜜
Xiang Changsha 蜜糖
Shuangfeng 蜂糖, 蜜糖

Descendants
Sino-Xenic (蜂蜜):
  • → Korean: 봉밀 (蜂蜜, bongmil)
  • → Vietnamese: phong mật (蜂蜜)

Japanese
蜂蜜 (hachimitsu): honey.
Kanji in this term
蜂 蜜
はち
Grade: S		 みつ
Grade: S
yutōyomi

Etymology

Compound of 蜂 (hachi, “bee”) +‎ 蜜 (mitsu, “honey”).

Pronunciation

Noun

蜂蜜 (hiragana はちみつ, katakana ハチミツ, rōmaji hachimitsu)

  1. honey

Derived terms

See also

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