How to write hana in japanese

Words can get “jumbled” together because Japanese doesn’t use spaces. It’s also a bit childish to write only in hiragana — children write exclusively in hiragana until they start learning kanji in grade school. Kanji are used in reading and writing to make it clear what the word is referring to.

When Does HANA Mean a Nose in Japanese? The Japanese word for nose is spelled with the kanji 鼻 (hana). Again, when you hear this word spoken in a full sentence, you will have to see if it makes more sense to interpret “hana” as either flower or nose. I have a stuffy nose. 鼻が詰まっている。.

When Romanizing Japanese (that is, writing Japanese words with English letters, also called romaji ), you will only use the vowels a, i, u, e, o. And you’ll use these consonants: k, g, s, z, j, t, d, n, h, f, b, p, m, y, r, w. There is also the combined letters ch — the letter “c” is never used on its own.

話 (hanashi) can mean talk; speech; or story depending on the particular context of the dialog. But when it’s used as a verb, it is spelled as 話す (hana.su) and it means to talk in Japanese. In this situation, the 話 part is actually identical to the words for flower and nose.