English Name To Japanese Letters
Refer to rule 4 for the proper pronunciation of a i u e o.
English name to japanese letters. 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. 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. Ok now you re ready to learn your japanese name. Kanji pictographic characters imported from china hiragana and katakana phonetic alphabets developed in japan.
To get a kanji name with a similar pronunciation to an english name ask a japanese person for help or look in a book. 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. Google s free service instantly translates words phrases and web pages between english and over 100 other languages. You d better to write your name with katakana.
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. Here s how you figure out your name.
