Name in Japanese D Daisy

Daisy in Japanese

デイジー
Katakana
デイジー
Hiragana
でいじー
Romaji (Hepburn)
Deijī

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

How Daisy sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

De
I
ジー

Full reading: Deijī

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Why Daisy 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, Daisy appears as デイジー. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees デイジー and immediately reads it by its sound, Deijī.

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 Daisy becomes デイジー 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.