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Originally Posted by BowserJr
I was told once that words can change meaning if written in kanji vs hiragana. Is that true too? They told me "koibito" could mean something like "person who loves" when written in kanji but I heard others say that's not true.
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Who told you that?
Kanji words can change meanings when written in katakana as we discussed above but I cannot think off the top of my head of an example of kanji vs. hiragana. That is unless someone chooses to use hiragana instead of katakana to use a word for its colloquial meaning, which is not too rare.
And 恋人 doesn't change its meaning no matter how you write it for your own aesthetic reasons. Kids who have not learned the kanji will write it こいびと but not many people, young or old, would write it in katakana.