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蜂 means 'bee'
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ホウ
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Find out why some Japanese eat bee larvae and "royal jelly," what traditional Japanese beekeeping involves, how Japanese and Western honeybees differ, and where bees thrive in Japan. Learn to count bees and to say that they're buzzing or that a swarm has attacked! Read about "buzzing" in the ears and bee uprisings, and see why a figurative queen bee seems sexy and marketable in Japan.
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In the most useful 10,000 words in Japanese, 蜂 is used 2 times, read 2 ways.
Across all words in Japanese, 蜂 is used 72 times, read 2 ways (with 1 variation).
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ホウ
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noun, 'suru' verb
uprising; revolt(click the word to view an additional 2 forms, examples and links)
はち
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はち
(read as ばち)
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noun
honeybee (Apis sp.); honey bee (often written with kana only)(click the word to view an additional 1 reading and 2 forms, examples and links)
An additional 6 less common words include 蜂 but the reading has not yet been categorized.
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