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蝙蝠こうもり
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Meanings
Noun
1. bat (Chiroptera spp.) (Usually kana)
2. umbrella (Abbreviation)
Other spellings
こうもり
Kanji used
蝙bat蝠bat [alt]
Pitch accent
こうもり
Used in vocabulary
おおこうもり
fruit bat (Pteropodidae spp.); flying fox; megabat
Noun
こうもり傘がさ
(Western-style) umbrella
Noun
吸きゅう血けつコウモリ
vampire bat
Noun
おがさわおおこうもり
Bonin flying fox (Pteropus pselaphon)
Noun
だいとうおおこうもり
Daito flying fox (Pteropus dasymallus daitoensis)
Noun
おきなわおおこうもり
Okinawa flying fox (Pteropus loochoensis)
Noun
いえこうもり
Japanese house bat (Pipistrellus abramus)
Noun
あぶらこうもり
Japanese pipistrelle (Pipistrellus abramus); Japanese house bat
Noun
てんぐこうもり
Hilgendorf's tube-nosed bat (Murina hilgendorfi)
Noun
こうもりが
swift moth (Hepialidae spp., esp. Endoclita excrescens)
Noun
きくがしらこうもり
greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum)
Noun
くびわおおこうもり
Ryukyu flying fox (Pteropus dasymallus); Ryukyu fruit bat
Noun
Examples9
Is that a bat?
Bats usually fly in the dark.
A bat is no more a bird than a rat is.
A bat hunts food and eats at night, but sleeps during the day.
A bat is not a bird, but a mammal.
No wonder we associate bats with dark places.