Name in Japanese B Bruno

Bruno in Japanese

ブルーノ
Katakana
ブルーノ
Hiragana
ぶるーの
Romaji (Hepburn)
Burūno

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

How Bruno sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Bu
ルー
No

Full reading: Burūno

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Why Bruno 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, Bruno appears as ブルーノ. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees ブルーノ and immediately reads it by its sound, Burūno.

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 Bruno becomes ブルーノ 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.