Twice in the last week, I’ve had a conversation with a Japanese person that included the word bee. It went something like this:
🙂 There was a bee!
🧐 ...B?
😤 Bee.
🤔 Bean? まめ (mame, bean)?
🥲 Bee. はち (hachi, bee).
😅 はち (hachi, eight)?
😫 はち。Bee.
😮💨 Oh! Bee!