Dear Japanese名前と漢字

Hinata

陽向ひなた

A unisex name with 3 common kanji spellings. The most typical, 陽向, combines sun + facing towards.

Hiragana
ひなた
Katakana
ヒナタ
Romaji (Hepburn)
Hinata
Morae
3 ひなた
Gender
Unisex

Kanji spellings

The same name can be written with different characters. Parents choose the kanji for its meaning.

Nicknames

How friends and family might shorten Hinata. See the guide to -chan and -kun.

  • ひなちゃんhina-chan
  • ひなくんhina-kun
  • ひなたちゃんhinata-chan
  • ひなたくんhinata-kun
  • ひーちゃんhi-chan

As a full name

In Japanese the surname comes first.

Names that share a kanji