Hanja Analyzer
蝠

蝠 — bok

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
박쥐 복
Romanization
bok
English
bat
Mandarin
fú
Japanese on'yomi
フク
Japanese kun'yomi
まむし
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
15
Radical
虫 (142, 9 residual)
Unicode
U+8760

Parts that make up 蝠

  • 虫 벌레 충, 벌레 훼 고개 든 뱀벌레와 뱀·조개 따위 작은 생물
  • 畐 가득 채운 항아리‘복·핍’ 계열의 소리

How 蝠 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 蝠 as a phonetic compound involving 虫, 畐.

Japanese words with 蝠

  • 蝙蝠こうもり bat (Chiroptera spp.); umbrella; opportunist
  • 大蝙蝠おおこうもり fruit bat (Pteropodidae spp.); flying fox; megabat
  • 家蝙蝠いえこうもり Japanese house bat (Pipistrellus abramus)
  • 油蝙蝠あぶらこうもり Japanese pipistrelle (Pipistrellus abramus); Japanese house bat
  • 蝙蝠蛾こうもりが swift moth (Hepialidae spp., esp. Endoclita excrescens)
  • 蟹蝙蝠かにこうもり Parasenecio adenostyloides (species of daisy)
  • 兎蝙蝠うさぎこうもり brown long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus); common long-eared bat; brown big-eared bat
  • 雛蝙蝠ひなこうもり vesper bat (Vespertilionidae spp., esp. the Asian particolored bat, Vespertilio sinensis); evening bat; common bat
  • 山蝙蝠ヤマコウモリ birdlike noctule (Nyctalus aviator)
  • 天狗蝙蝠てんぐこうもり Hilgendorf's tube-nosed bat (Murina hilgendorfi)
  • 菊頭蝙蝠きくがしらこうもり greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum)
  • 豚鼻蝙蝠ぶたばなこうもり Kitti's hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai); bumblebee bat; Old World hog-nosed bat

Other hanja read “복”

Other hanja with radical 虫

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