Name in Japanese G Guy

Guy in Japanese

ガイ
Katakana
ガイ
Hiragana
がい
Romaji (Hepburn)
Gai

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

How Guy sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Ga
I

Full reading: Gai

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

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 Guy becomes ガイ 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.