AVA in Japanese?


Trying to figure out the proper way to write Ava in Japanese. I see there are
several types of Japanese alphabets so lost on which is the correct way. It's
my daughter's name and she's a martial artist so wanted to get her name done
in Japanese.

Thanks




It depends on how her name is pronounced in English. If it's pronounced "AH-
va," I would write it as in the link l'electeur offered: アヴァ. If it's
pronounced "EH-va," I would write it: エヴァ。

In general, translation requests are out of the scope of this forum, but
yesterday I was wondering how to write "Laertes" in Katakana, and it turns out
there are a bunch of different ways, which I thought was interesting.

Addendum: While エヴァ is a common transliteration, I agree with Ben below that
エイヴァ is more faithful.




It depends on how her name is pronounced in English. If it's pronounced "AH-
va," I would write it as in the link l'electeur offered: アヴァ. If it's
pronounced "EH-va," I would write it: エヴァ。

In general, translation requests are out of the scope of this forum, but
yesterday I was wondering how to write "Laertes" in Katakana, and it turns out
there are a bunch of different ways, which I thought was interesting.

Addendum: While エヴァ is a common transliteration, I agree with Ben below that
エイヴァ is more faithful.

