Name in Japanese C Candace

Candace in Japanese

キャンディス
Katakana
キャンディス
Hiragana
きゃんでぃす
Romaji (Hepburn)
Kyandisu

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

How Candace sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

キャ Kya
N
ディ Di
Su

Full reading: Kyandisu

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Why Candace 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, Candace appears as キャンディス. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees キャンディス and immediately reads it by its sound, Kyandisu.

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 Candace becomes キャンディス 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.