Name in Japanese C Caroline

Caroline in Japanese

キャロライン
Katakana
キャロライン
Hiragana
きゃろらいん
Romaji (Hepburn)
Kyarorain

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

How Caroline sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

キャ Kya
Ro
Ra
I
N

Full reading: Kyarorain

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Why Caroline 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, Caroline appears as キャロライン. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees キャロライン and immediately reads it by its sound, Kyarorain.

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 Caroline becomes キャロライン 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.