Hinata is a common Japanese given name, and a Japanese family name.
Possible writings and meanings
The reading of ''Hinata'' can be written using many different combinations of
kanji
are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese ...
, such as:
*日, "sun; day; date"
*日向, "in the sun; facing the sun"
*日陽, "day sun; sunny yang"
*日暖, "sunny warmth and geniality; warmth of the sun"
*日菜, "sunny vegetables"
*日詩, "sunny poem; poetry of the sun"
*日南, "sunny south; the sun's southern side; the south of the sun"
*日寿, "sunny longevity"
*日当, "daily allowance; per day; sunlit; exposed to the sun"
*日當, "sunny undertaking; the sun serves; the sun withstands"
*日方, "sunny side; sunny direction; in the direction of the sun"
*日宛, "sunny address; just like the sun"
*日和, "sunny harmony; sunny japan; japan's harmony"
*日奈多, "many sunny what"
*日奈太, "large sunny what"
*日菜多, "many sunny greens"
*日菜太, "large sunny vegetables"
*日菜詩, "sunny vegetable poem"
*日菜珠, "sunny vegetable pearl"
*日向太, "thick under the sun"
*日向汰, "elimination under the sun; eliminated under the sun"
*日向大, "big under the sun"
*日向陽, "yang under the sun; a sun under the sun; a sun facing towards the sun"
*日那向, "under that sun; facing towards that sun"
*日那多, "many sunny what"
*日那太, "large sunny what"
*日那田, "sunny what cropland"
*日南田, "sunny southern cropland; a cropland on the south of the sun"
*日南羽, "sunny southern feathers; feathers on the south of the sun"
*日名田, "sunny famous cropland; a famous cropland of the sun"
*日永田, "sunny eternal cropland"
*陽向, "in the sun; facing the sun"
*灯向, "facing towards the lamp; facing towards the lantern"
*灯成多, "the lamp/lantern becomes many; the lamp/lantern succeeds in many"
*向日葵, "sunflower"
*向陽, "towards the sun"
*太陽, "the sun"
*春陽, "summer sun; summer yang"
*暖, "warm and genial"
*暖太, "large warmth"
*光暖, "bright and warm; warmth of the light"
*光永, "bright light forever"
*彩羽, "colorful feathers"
*羽叶, "the feather grants; the feather answers; the feather makes it come true"
*雛多, "many young birds"
*雛太, "large young bird"
*雛田, "young bird cropland"
*雛音, "sounds of a young bird"
*南, "south; southern"
The name can also be written in hiragana (ひなた) and katakana (ヒナタ), although, it loses its meaning in these forms.
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