How To Spell Your Name In Japanese Kanji

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How to spell your name in japanese kanji. If you have an original japanese name you can write your name using either hiragana or kanji ideograms. Then create an image to design your own japanese t shirt or other customizable product. The first way is to ateji your name.

To see what your name looks like in japanese just type it in below and click the translate button. Enter your name in entry box below. Kanjiname is a web application that translates your name into japanese kanji.

To see your name in japanese just type it in the text box below. Turn english into katakana. Your name in japanese in japanese foreign names are normally written using the phonetic katakana alphabet.

Essentially given a list of english japanese name pairs the system learns a series of substitution rules to apply to the english input in order to get the japanese output. The key to writing your name in japanese is not to write it the same way as in english but how it s pronounced in japanese. Alternatively select kanji from our popular kanji list or four kanji idiom list.

To write your name in japanese the easiest way is to find a katakana letter that corresponds to the pronunciation of your japanese name. For instance the first rule the system learns is to replace the letter l with the letter r because there is no l in japanese. More subtle rules are applied such as replace g with j if it s followed by.

For example if your name is maria look for the katakana character for ma which is マ then the character for ri which is リ and then character for a which is ア. If your name has a consonant followed by a vowel it will be straightforward to write. In this case the meanings of the kanji hardly matter and it s with those kanji just so it is written with kanji.