Name in Japanese A Alice

Alice in Japanese

アリス
Katakana
アリス
Hiragana
ありす
Romaji (Hepburn)
Arisu

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

How Alice sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

A
Ri
Su

Full reading: Arisu

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Why Alice 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, Alice appears as アリス. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees アリス and immediately reads it by its sound, Arisu.

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 Alice becomes アリス 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.