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fēng
  1. 1.old variant of 蜂[fēng]
fēng
  1. 1.variant of 蜂[fēng]
fēng
  1. 1.bee
  2. 2.wasp

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.Apoidea or Vespa (wasps, bees and hornets)
  2. 2.honeybee
  3. 3.swarm

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Etymology

Simplified from 蠭. Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *boːŋ, *pʰoŋ): semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 夆 (OC *pʰoŋ, *boŋ, *ɡaːds) – a kind of insect. 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”).

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