Name in Japanese P Priscilla

Priscilla in Japanese

プリシラ
Katakana
プリシラ
Hiragana
ぷりしら
Romaji (Hepburn)
Purishira

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

How Priscilla sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Pu
Ri
Shi
Ra

Full reading: Purishira

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Why Priscilla 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, Priscilla appears as プリシラ. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees プリシラ and immediately reads it by its sound, Purishira.

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 Priscilla becomes プリシラ 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.