鼻血(はなぢ)

Usage

The most common pattern is 鼻血(はなぢ)が出(で)る (to get a nosebleed, literally "a nosebleed comes out"). The transitive form 鼻血(はなぢ)を出(だ)す (to produce a nosebleed) is used when describing someone else's nosebleed or an action causing one.

Common collocations

• 鼻血(はなぢ)が出(で)る (to have a nosebleed)
• 鼻血(はなぢ)を出(だ)す (to get/cause a nosebleed)
• 鼻血(はなぢ)が止(と)まらない (the nosebleed won't stop)
• 鼻血(はなぢ)を拭(ふ)く (to wipe a nosebleed)

Spelling note

The reading is はなぢ (with ぢ), not はなじ. This is because the second element is 血(ち) (blood), which becomes voiced (ぢ) in compound words through rendaku.