My name in Japanese – Mary

Your name in Japanese phonetic alphabet:

Foreign words – such as foreign names – are written in katakana, which is a phonetic Japanese alphabet. These characters only describe the reading and sound but have no meaning by themselves. If you want to create a business card in Japanese you should be using these characters.

Katakana マリ
Reading  MA RI

Click on the link for each character and learn how to write it from the video.


Your name in Japanese kanji characters:

Japanese names usually are written in kanji characters which have a meaning. Many kanji have the same pronunciation but different meanings, so that there are many possible combinations for a specific name. Parents therefore spend a lot of time choosing the characters for the names of their children.

We looked at possible combinations with nice meaning to write your name in Japanese. There probably are more possibilities and we will add them if we come across one of them.


真利

Kanji Meaning Reading
truth MA
benefit RI

真理

Kanji Meaning Reading
truth MA
reason, logic RI

真里

Kanji Meaning Reading
truth MA
home, village RI

万理

Kanji Meaning Reading
ten thousand MA
reason, logic RI

Kanji Card – 玉

玉

7389 - 玉

Meaning ball, jewel, precious stone
Onyomi GYOKU
Kunyomi tama
Strokes 5 (click on the pick to start the video)

Vocabulary

Kanji Furigana Romaji Meaning JLPT
たま tama ball, coin 3

Radicals

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Kanji Card – 貝

貝

8C9D - 貝

Meaning shell, shellfish
Onyomi
Kunyomi kai
Strokes 7 (click on the pick to start the video)

Vocabulary

Kanji Furigana Romaji Meaning JLPT
かい kai shell, shellfish 3
赤貝 あかがい akagai blood clam, red clam

Radicals

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Vocabulary Card – お手洗い – otearai

Furigana: おてあらい

Romaji: otearai

Meaning: toilet, washroom

Level: JLPT N5

Word Type: noun


Writing

Kanji Meaning Onyomi Kunyomi JLPT
hiragana o honorific prefix 5
hand SHU te 5
  to wash SEN ara(u) 4
  hiragana i 5

Examples

Kanji 日本のお手洗いはきれいです。
Furigana にほんのおてあらいはきれいです。
Romaji nihon no otearai wa kirei desu.
English Toilets in Japan are clean.

Vocabulary

Synonym

Kanji Furigana
Romaji Meaning JLPT
トイレ トイレ toire toilet
洗面所 せんめんじょ senmenjo toilet, bathroom

Opposite

Kanji Furigana
Romaji Meaning JLPT
5

Related words

Kanji Furigana
Romaji Meaning JLPT
5

Kanji Card – 野

野

91CE - 野

Meaning field
Onyomi YA
Kunyomi no
Strokes 11 (click on the pick to start the video)

Vocabulary

Kanji Furigana Romaji Meaning JLPT
野菜 やさい yasai vegetable 5

Radicals

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