Name in Japanese A Alexis

Alexis in Japanese

アレクシス
Katakana
アレクシス
Hiragana
あれくしす
Romaji (Hepburn)
Arekushisu

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

How Alexis sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

A
Re
Ku
Shi
Su

Full reading: Arekushisu

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Why Alexis 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, Alexis appears as アレクシス. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees アレクシス and immediately reads it by its sound, Arekushisu.

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 Alexis becomes アレクシス 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.