鼻

はな · hana · JLPT N5 · noun

nose

鼻 — nose

👃 hana: same sound as flower (花) — the nose is what smells the hana

Japanese has two common words pronounced hana: 鼻 (nose) and 花 (flower). Link them by function: a hana smells a hana. The kanji 鼻 has 自 on top, which originally meant nose and now means self — people in Japan point to their nose to mean me.

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