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Kanji Detail for 蜂 - "bee"

蜂

  • Meaning

    蜂 means "bee." Also associated with to swarm, spearhead.

    1. Bee - An insect with a stinger at its tail.

    2. To swarm - To gather in crowds.

    3. Spearhead - The point of a weapon.

  • Words using 蜂

    • 蜂蜜 はちみつ Listen honey

  • Four-character idioms with 蜂

    • 武装蜂起 ぶそうほうき Listen armed uprising

  • Tattoo check: 蜂

    • Verified meaning: bee
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read たかはち, はち)
    • Also carries these associations: to swarm, spearhead

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 蜂

    Surnames 蜂(たかはち)Listen 蜂(はち)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    bee; wasp; hornet

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    bee, wasp, hornet

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    variant of 蜂[feng1]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    bee, wasp, hornet

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Flying insects. Most notable are honeybees. Build nests and live in groups. Collect flowers and make honey. Divided into queen bee, drone, and worker bee. Queen bees are female. Drones are male. Both don't work and only reproduce. Worker bees are all female but cannot lay eggs. All nest-building and honey-making is done by worker bees. Their honey and the wax from nests are important industrial products. Other common ones include: slender-waisted bees with long waist stalks. Red bees that are black with yellow-red stripes on abdomen segments. Hornets that build ball-shaped nests on tree branches. All bees have stingers with poison at the end of their abdomen. Can sting people. | A fierce and violent appearance. Such as saying 蜂目豺聲 (bee eyes and jackal voice). | A numerous appearance. Such as saying 盜賊蜂起 (bandits swarming).

  • Onyomi

    tip

    hoh(ホウ) ホウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    hachi(はち) はち

  • Strokes

    tip

    13 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    虫 (mushi・mushihen)

  • Related Keywords

    bee to swarm spearhead wasp hive honey sting stinger colony buzzing nectar pollination queen drone insect crowd gather

Sentences including 蜂

  • If you try for too much , you'll end up with nothing at all.

  • You are always as busy as a bee.

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