English Name To Japanese Letters
You d better to write your name with katakana.
English name to japanese letters. To write a name in kanji the faq has an online abc to kanji converter which converts letters into similar looking kanji but this will not give a meaningful pronunciation. Here s how you figure out your name. Refer to rule 4 for the proper pronunciation of a i u e o. Ok now you re ready to learn your japanese name.
Names written in japanese transliteration in japanese letters japanese alphabet. To get a kanji name with a similar pronunciation to an english name ask a japanese person for help or look in a book. 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. To read a newspaper you must know 2 000 commonly used kanji hiragana and katakana which are taught in elementary school and junior high school along with the english alphabets.
Japanese language consists of three alphabets. Below is a chart of the katakana letters providing you with the english first japanese character underneath to help you find the character for your name.