Name in Japanese M Micah

Micah in Japanese

マイカ
Katakana
マイカ
Hiragana
まいか
Romaji (Hepburn)
Maika

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

How Micah sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Ma
I
Ka

Full reading: Maika

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

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 Micah becomes マイカ 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.