Name in Japanese L Liz

Liz in Japanese

リズ
Katakana
リズ
Hiragana
りず
Romaji (Hepburn)
Rizu

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

How Liz sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Ri
Zu

Full reading: Rizu

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

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 Liz becomes リズ 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.