Name in Japanese L Lois

Lois in Japanese

ロイス
Katakana
ロイス
Hiragana
ろいす
Romaji (Hepburn)
Roisu

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

How Lois sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Ro
I
Su

Full reading: Roisu

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

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 Lois becomes ロイス 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.