Write Your Name With Japanese Letters

Japanese people usually write their names using kanji and sometimes hiragana or katakana.

Write your name with japanese letters. Kanji pictographic characters imported from china hiragana and katakana phonetic alphabets developed in japan. You can use your computer keyboard or mouse to type japanese letters kanji hiragana and katakana with this online keyboard. If your name has a consonant followed by a vowel it will be straightforward to write.

For example the names kathy and cathy are written exactly the same in japanese. Japanese words are composed of vowels or a consonant followed by a vowel for example ie no or mizu water. Names written in japanese transliteration in japanese letters japanese alphabet.

In kana mode click or press the space key to toggle between hiragana input and katakana input. 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. Both are written with the romaji kyashi which in katakana is キャシー.

To write your name in japanese the easiest way is to find a katakana letter that corresponds to the pronunciation of your japanese name. A good example is the name jan. 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.

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. Non japanese people usually write their names in japanese in katakana. To see what your name looks like in japanese just type it in below and click the translate button.

If you like you can also choose from a few different character styles. Japanese has a writing system consisting of two ways of writing kanji and two forms of kana hiragana and katakana. On the other hand a name that is spelled the same but pronounced differently will be written differently in japanese.