Name in Japanese P Price

Price in Japanese

プライス
Katakana
プライス
Hiragana
ぷらいす
Romaji (Hepburn)
Puraisu

This is the common, natural katakana for Price. Katakana approximates English sounds, so a slightly different spelling can also be valid — treat this as a reliable default, not the single "correct" answer.

How Price sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Pu
Ra
I
Su

Full reading: Puraisu

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

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 Price becomes プライス 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.