こうもり
Meanings
Noun
Usually written in kana
1. bat (Chiroptera spp.)
2. umbrella
3. opportunist; turncoat
Pitch accent
うもり
Used in vocabulary (23 in total)
fruit bat (Pteropodidae spp.); flying fox; megabat
Parasenecio adenostyloides (species of daisy)
Japanese house bat (Pipistrellus abramus)
swift moth (Hepialidae spp., esp. Endoclita excrescens)
greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum)
epauletted fruit bat (Epomophorus spp.)
Japanese pipistrelle (Pipistrellus abramus); Japanese house bat
a man among the geese when the gander is away; a one-eyed king in the land of the blind; (lit.) a bat in a village without birds
Hilgendorf's tube-nosed bat (Murina hilgendorfi)
Kitti's hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai); bumblebee bat; Old World hog-nosed bat
brown long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus); common long-eared bat; brown big-eared bat
fraternal myotis (Myotis frater); long-tailed whiskered bat
lesser great leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros turpis); lesser roundleaf bat; lesser leaf-nosed bat
Japanese short-tailed bat (Eptesicus japonensis)
Hodgson's bat (Myotis formosus); Bartel's myotis
Ussuri tube-nosed bat (Murina ussuriensis)
Japanese noctule (Nyctalus furvus)
Shinano whiskered bat (Myotis ikonnikovi hosonoi); Hosono's myotis
tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimeninae spp., esp. the common tube-nosed fruit bat, Nyctimene albiventer)
vesper bat (Vespertilionidae spp., esp. the Asian particolored bat, Vespertilio sinensis); evening bat; common bat
capable or not, we are all in the same boat; (lit.) bats are also birds
Examples (2 in total)
Is that a bat?
Bats are not birds, they're mammals.