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Kotomora

蝙

bat

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Readings

On'yomi

  • ヘン

Kun'yomi

  • こうもり

Meaning

蝙 centers on the animal bat, specifically the small flying mammal. It is rarely used alone and typically appears in the compound 蝙蝠 (こうもり).

Most common words using 蝙

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  • 蝙蝠こうもり

    bat (Chiroptera spp.)

  • かぐや蝙蝠かぐやこうもり

    fraternal myotis (Myotis frater); long-tailed whiskered bat

  • インド大蝙蝠インドおおこうもり

    Indian flying fox (Pteropus giganteus); greater Indian fruit bat

  • キティ豚鼻蝙蝠キティぶたばなこうもり

    Kitti's hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai); bumblebee bat; Old World hog-nosed bat

  • 信濃頬髭蝙蝠しなのほおひげこうもり

    Shinano whiskered bat (Myotis ikonnikovi hosonoi); Hosono's myotis

  • 兎蝙蝠うさぎこうもり

    brown long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus); common long-eared bat; brown big-eared bat

  • 大東大蝙蝠だいとうおおこうもり

    Daito flying fox (Pteropus dasymallus daitoensis)

  • 大蝙蝠おおこうもり

    fruit bat (Pteropodidae spp.); flying fox; megabat

  • 天狗フルーツ蝙蝠てんぐフルーツこうもり

    tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimeninae spp., esp. the common tube-nosed fruit bat, Nyctimene albiventer)

  • 天狗蝙蝠てんぐこうもり

    Hilgendorf's tube-nosed bat (Murina hilgendorfi)

  • 家蝙蝠いえこうもり

    Japanese house bat (Pipistrellus abramus)

  • 小天狗蝙蝠こてんぐこうもり

    Ussuri tube-nosed bat (Murina ussuriensis)

  • 小山蝙蝠こやまこうもり

    Japanese noctule (Nyctalus furvus)

  • 小笠原大蝙蝠おがさわらおおこうもり

    Bonin flying fox (Pteropus pselaphon); Bonin fruit bat

  • 小笠和大蝙蝠おがさわおおこうもり

    Bonin flying fox (Pteropus pselaphon)

  • 小菊頭蝙蝠こきくがしらこうもり

    little Japanese horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus cornutus); Japanese lesser horseshoe bat

  • 山蝙蝠やまこうもり

    birdlike noctule (Nyctalus aviator)

  • 東洋雛蝙蝠とうようひなこうもり

    Asian particolored bat (Vespertilio sinensis)

  • 永良部大蝙蝠えらぶおおこうもり

    northern Ryukyu fruit bat (Pteropus dasymallus dasymallus)

  • 沖縄大蝙蝠おきなわおおこうもり

    Okinawa flying fox (Pteropus loochoensis)

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Etymology

蝙 combines 虫 (insect/creature) with 扁, which likely contributes the sound ヘン. The character classifies the bat as a small winged creature.

Meaning mnemonic

The insect radical 虫 on the left suggests a small creature, and the right side 扁 looks like a flat, spread-out shape. Picture a bat with its wings spread flat like the 扁 shape, a creature that looks like a flying insect.

Reading mnemonic

For ヘン, imagine a hen chasing a bat out of the barn: hen -> ヘン, and the bat flutters away.