หน้า
“หน้า” (наа) — face in Thai. Noun, level A1. The face is also the "front", the "page", and the "season": Thai builds many words on naa. You saw it in "wash the face". In a live sentence: “หน้า ของ เขา เหมือน พ่อ” — His face is like his father's. Written with the characters ห, น, ้, า. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | หน้า |
| Read in Latin letters | наа |
| Translation | face |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The face is also the "front", the "page", and the "season": Thai builds many words on naa. You saw it in "wash the face"
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- หน้า ของ เขา เหมือน พ่อнаа кхонг кхао мыан пхёHis face is like his father's
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “face” in Thai?
«หน้า», read “наа”. In a live sentence: “หน้า ของ เขา เหมือน พ่อ” — His face is like his father's. Noun, level A1; written with the characters ห, น, ้, า.
How is “หน้า” written in Latin letters?
наа. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
The face is also the "front", the "page", and the "season": Thai builds many words on naa. You saw it in "wash the face". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.