Name in Japanese B Brittany

Brittany in Japanese

ブリタニー
Katakana
ブリタニー
Hiragana
ぶりたにー
Romaji (Hepburn)
Buritanī

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

How Brittany sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Bu
Ri
Ta
ニー

Full reading: Buritanī

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Why Brittany 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, Brittany appears as ブリタニー. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees ブリタニー and immediately reads it by its sound, Buritanī.

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 Brittany becomes ブリタニー 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.