Name in Japanese C Chloe

Chloe in Japanese

クロエ
Katakana
クロエ
Hiragana
くろえ
Romaji (Hepburn)
Kuroe

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

How Chloe sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Ku
Ro
E

Full reading: Kuroe

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Why Chloe 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, Chloe appears as クロエ. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees クロエ and immediately reads it by its sound, Kuroe.

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 Chloe becomes クロエ 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.