Illustration: In a Japanese apartment balcony garden, a honeybee lands on a flowering herb just as the resident leans forward to inspect it. The insect is close enough to show its fuzzy thorax, segmented abdomen, six legs, antennae, and delicate paired wings.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

蜂はち

hachi

bee, wasp, hornet

Example sentences

  1. トムは蜂はちに刺さされた。

    Tom was stung by a bee.

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  2. 蜂はちが花はなに飛とんできた。

    The bee flew to the flower.

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  3. 蜂はちは花はなから花はなに飛とぶ。

    Bees fly from flower to flower.

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Kanji in 蜂

  • 蜂bee; waspOnホウKunはち

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