koumori コウモリ

Translation

koumori means "Bat" in English.

The "bat" you hit balls with is called batto バット, while the animal is called koumori コウモリ.

koumori is normally written with katakana, as コウモリ.
koumori written with hiragana is こうもり.

koumori written with kanji is 蝙蝠.
This word contains non-jouyou kanji 常用漢字.

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