Name in Japanese J Juana

Juana in Japanese

フアナ
Katakana
フアナ
Hiragana
ふあな
Romaji (Hepburn)
Fuana

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

How Juana sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Fu
A
Na

Full reading: Fuana

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

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 Juana becomes フアナ 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.