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Five Red Bats in Chinese / Japanese...

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 hóng wǔ fú
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紅五蝠 is a play on words in Chinese because of some homophones.

The first thing you need to know is that the word for bat, 蝠, sounds exactly like the word for good fortune, 福. Thus, bats are often associated with good luck and good fortune in Chinese culture.

Five bats (五福 / 五蝠) means “five fortunes,” referring to luck, prosperity, wealth, happiness, and longevity.

The word red, 红, has the same sound as 宏 meaning vast, great, or magnificent. Therefore, a red bat means “vast fortune.”

Altogether, five red bats represent vast reaches of the five fortunes.


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Characters

If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese

 Pronunciation
Romanization		 Simple Dictionary Definition

打撃数

see styles		  dagekisuu / dagekisu
    だげきすう

打撃数
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(1) number of blows (used in measuring the bpm of an air hammer, etc.); (2) {baseb} (See 打数) (number of) at bats

翼手目

see styles		  yokushumoku
    よくしゅもく

翼手目
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Chiroptera (order of bats)

翼手類

see styles		  yokushurui
    よくしゅるい

翼手類
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chiropterans (i.e. bats)

葉口蝠科

叶口蝠科

see styles		 yè kǒu fú kē
    ye4 kou3 fu2 ke1
yeh k`ou fu k`o
    yeh kou fu ko

葉口蝠科
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(zoology) New World leaf-nosed bats (Phyllostomidae)

コウモリ目

see styles		  koumorimoku / komorimoku
    コウモリもく

コウモリ目
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Chiroptera; order comprising the bats

蝙蝠も鳥の内

see styles		  koumorimotorinouchi / komorimotorinochi
    こうもりもとりのうち

蝙蝠も鳥の内
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(expression) (proverb) capable or not, we are all in the same boat; bats are also birds

蝙蝠も鳥のうち

see styles		  koumorimotorinouchi / komorimotorinochi
    こうもりもとりのうち

蝙蝠も鳥のうち
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(expression) (proverb) capable or not, we are all in the same boat; bats are also birds

Variations:
蝙蝠も鳥のうち
蝙蝠も鳥の内

  koumorimotorinouchi / komorimotorinochi
    こうもりもとりのうち		 (expression) (proverb) capable or not, we are all in the same boat; bats are also birds

Variations:
カンフーバット
カンフー・バット

  kanfuubatto; kanfuu batto / kanfubatto; kanfu batto
    カンフーバット; カンフー・バット		 (named after Bruce Lee's use of nunchaku) two small plastic baseball bats connected with a chain (struck against each other during sports chants) (wasei: kungfu bats)

The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...

Title CharactersRomaji (Romanized Japanese)Various forms of Romanized Chinese
Five Red Bats紅五蝠
红五蝠		hóng wǔ fú
hong2 wu3 fu2
hong wu fu
hongwufu		hung wu fu
hungwufu
In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line.
In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese.


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