Name in Japanese O Oscar

Oscar in Japanese

オスカー
Katakana
オスカー
Hiragana
おすかー
Romaji (Hepburn)
Osukā

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

How Oscar sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

O
Su
カー

Full reading: Osukā

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

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 Oscar becomes オスカー 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.