蜜蜂
mì fēng · HSK 7
bee
🐝 蜜 mì = honey + 蜂 fēng = wasp/stinging-insect → the honey-insect = bee
蜜 (mì) is honey and shows up in 蜂蜜 fēngmì, honey. 蜂 (fēng) covers stinging insects like wasps and bees. Put them together and 蜜蜂 is literally the honey-bug: the honeybee.
蜜 — insect 虫 + 宓 (mì, phonetic)
蜜 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The 虫 component signals an insect (here, bees), while 宓 supplies the sound 'mì'. The character originally referred to honey produced by bees, and by extension came to mean sweetness.