Name in Japanese H Harmony

Harmony in Japanese

ハーモニー
Katakana
ハーモニー
Hiragana
はーもにー
Romaji (Hepburn)
Hāmonī

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

How Harmony sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

ハー
Mo
ニー

Full reading: Hāmonī

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Why Harmony 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, Harmony appears as ハーモニー. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees ハーモニー and immediately reads it by its sound, Hāmonī.

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 Harmony becomes ハーモニー 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.