Japanese Name Converter
Our auto-translation software system will convert your name to Japanese
* The accuracy of the machine translation is not 100%.
Japanese Language Basics
Japanese has two alphabetic writing systems(Hiragana & Katakana) and one logographic writing system based on Chinese characters(Kanji: 漢字).
Western names are usually written in Katakana, but it is becoming more popular for tourists to print their names in Kanji on T-shirts by using ‘Ateji(当て字:kanji used as a phonetic symbol)’. For example, the word "sushi" is often written with its ateji "寿司". Though the two characters have the readings 'su' and 'shi' respectively, the character '寿' means "one's natural life span" and '司' means "to administer", neither of which has anything to do with the food. Different Kanji can be used to express the same sounds as in the example below.
About Shodo
Shodo is Japanese calligraphy – the art of writing with ink and brush. With these tools, one can create fantastic, pictorial characters or highly detailed, precise works of scripture.
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Japanese Language Basics
The Japanese writing system is a complex system of interconnected parts. There are two phonetic syllabaries called kana which are used to represent syllable sounds, and there are Chinese characters used to represent meaning which in Japanese are called kanji.
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What is my name in Japanese?
We will look at several strategies to figure out your name in Japanese.
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