Name in Japanese A Andre

Andre in Japanese

アンドレ
Katakana
アンドレ
Hiragana
あんどれ
Romaji (Hepburn)
Andore

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

How Andre sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

A
N
Do
Re

Full reading: Andore

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Why Andre 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, Andre appears as アンドレ. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees アンドレ and immediately reads it by its sound, Andore.

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 Andre becomes アンドレ 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.