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Your name in Japanese

Type your name and see it written in katakana, broken down sound by sound, and read out loud. Free, no sign-up, nothing to install.

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Why katakana

Japanese uses three sets of characters. Names from outside Japan are written in katakana, the set kept for words that came from other languages. You will see your name in katakana on forms, name tags, and hotel bookings.

Hiragana and kanji are used for Japanese names. Writing a foreign name in them is not wrong exactly, but it reads as though you were presenting yourself as Japanese, so katakana is what people actually use.

Now you can read it

Every character above is one of the 46 katakana. Learning them takes an afternoon, and after that you can read menus, station signs, and your own name.