Name in Japanese A Adriana

Adriana in Japanese

アドリアナ
Katakana
アドリアナ
Hiragana
あどりあな
Romaji (Hepburn)
Adoriana

This is the established spelling used for Adriana in Japanese dictionaries, books and media.

How Adriana sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

A
Do
Ri
A
Na

Full reading: Adoriana

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Why Adriana is written in katakana

In Japanese, foreign names are written in katakana — the angular script reserved for words borrowed from other languages. So on a form, a name tag, a delivery slip or a news article in Japan, Adriana appears as アドリアナ. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees アドリアナ and immediately reads it by its sound, Adoriana.

Katakana is a syllabary, so English sounds are fitted to the nearest Japanese syllables and every consonant (except ん) is followed by a vowel. That is why Adriana becomes アドリアナ rather than a letter-for-letter copy. More than one katakana spelling can be reasonable for the same name, which is why we flag whether a spelling is a long-established one or a natural default.