Name in Japanese F Felicia

Felicia in Japanese

フェリシア
Katakana
フェリシア
Hiragana
ふぇりしあ
Romaji (Hepburn)
Ferishia

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

How Felicia sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

フェ Fe
Ri
Shi
A

Full reading: Ferishia

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Why Felicia 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, Felicia appears as フェリシア. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees フェリシア and immediately reads it by its sound, Ferishia.

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 Felicia becomes フェリシア 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.