Name in Japanese A Andrea

Andrea in Japanese

アンドレア
Katakana
アンドレア
Hiragana
あんどれあ
Romaji (Hepburn)
Andorea

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

How Andrea sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

A
N
Do
Re
A

Full reading: Andorea

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

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 Andrea becomes アンドレア 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.