蜜

Meaning

蜜 centers on thick, sweet substances produced by nature: honey from bees, nectar from flowers, and by extension molasses as a similar sugary syrup.

• 蜜柑みかん
  N5

  mandarin (esp. the satsuma mandarin (Citrus unshiu)); mandarin orange; tangerine; clementine; satsuma

• 蜜みつ
  N1

  nectar

• 蜂蜜はちみつ
  N1

  honey

• 蜜蜂みつばち

  honeybee (Apis sp.); honey bee

• 蜜月みつげつ

  honeymoon

• 糖蜜とうみつ

  molasses; black treacle

• 蜜蝋みつろう

  beeswax

• 水蜜すいみつ

  white peach

• ハワイ蜜吸ハワイみつすい

  Hawaiian honeycreeper

• ボストン糖蜜災害ボストンとうみつさいがい

  Boston Molasses Disaster (January 15, 1919); Great Molasses Flood

• 仁王般若波羅蜜経にんのうはんにゃはらみつきょう

  Humane King Sutra

• 他人の不幸は蜜の味たにんのふこうはみつのあじ

  the misfortune of others tastes as sweet as honey

• 六波羅蜜ろくはらみつ

  the six virtues (perfections) a Buddha elect practices to attain supreme enlightenment

• 分蜜糖ぶんみつとう

  centrifugal sugar; sugar freed from liquid by a centrifuge

• 口に蜜あり腹に剣ありくちにみつありはらにけんあり

  honey in one's mouth but a razor in one's belt

• 含蜜糖がんみつとう

  non-centrifugal sugar; sugar extracted by evaporation

• 小蜜柑草こみかんそう

  chamberbitter (Phyllanthus urinaria); gripeweed; shatterstone; stonebreaker; leafflower

• 山蜜やまみつ

  wild honey

• 廃糖蜜はいとうみつ

  molasses; black treacle

• 採蜜さいみつ

  harvesting honey; gathering nectar

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