Name in Japanese J Juan

Juan in Japanese

フアン
Katakana
フアン
Hiragana
ふあん
Romaji (Hepburn)
Fuan

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

How Juan sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Fu
A
N

Full reading: Fuan

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

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 Juan becomes フアン 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.