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Animal Sounds

ぶんぶん

bun-bun

Bee buzzing sound

The vibrating buzz of bees or large flying insects. Featured in the famous Japanese children's song 'Bun-bun-bun, hachi ga tobu' (Buzz buzz, the bee flies).

💡A bee flying around the flower garden — 'A big bumblebee is buzzing bun-bun around the sunflowers.'

Example

はちがぶんぶん飛び回っている。

Bees are buzzing bun-bun around.

Quiz yourself

Bees were flying ___ around the blooming flowers in the garden.

庭に咲いた花の周りをはちが○○飛び回っていた。

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