Finding Your Kanji Name - a Japanese Name Conversion List

Every foreign tourist is asked to write their name in their entry card when entering Japan. When thinking about names, you might be interested in having your original Japanese name while are experiencing this country. 

Japanese consists of three types of characters, which are hiragana, katakana and Kanji. Kanji can be especially difficult as there are such a high volume of Kanji characters, and one character can have multiple pronunciations depending on its use. The complication of Japanese language makes it difficult for non-Japanese speakers to search their names in Japanese by themselves.

You can find more informations about Kanji on this article.

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Japanese is said to have one of the most difficult writing in the world. Indeed it is harder than Latin letters but it does not mean that it is hard. Kanji, which literally means "Chinese characters" (漢字) are ideograms and pictograms t...

As a solution to this problem, we have prepared a list of correlations between English letters and Japanese characters. Since there can be various kanji characters interpretations, the kanji listed are selected based on the popularity of Japanese babies' names to make your corresponding name more fashionable.

How to understand the list　

Firstly, find your name in the English letter column which is in alphabetical order. The corresponding hiragana, katakana, and Kanji characters can be found in the same line. The meaning of kanji characters are also listed behind for your convenience. For instance, for a person named Sara, can find her Japanese writing name separately by searching sa and ra, as the corresponding results combined to be  「さら」「サラ」「桜 羅」, which means Sakura and Silk.

Why not try to find your Japanese name?

Japanese name transformation list

Have you found your name?　        

If you have the chance to write your name in Japanese, such as during a calligraphy workshop, please have a try at writing your Japanese name. We will digitalize the list to a data base and launch a name transformation tool, allowing automatic transformation of English names to Japanese names.

Stay tuned and don’t miss it!

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