Name in Japanese M Maurice

Maurice in Japanese

モーリス
Katakana
モーリス
Hiragana
もーりす
Romaji (Hepburn)
Mōrisu

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

How Maurice sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

モー
Ri
Su

Full reading: Mōrisu

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

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 Maurice becomes モーリス 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.