Name in Japanese Q Quinn

Quinn in Japanese

クイン
Katakana
クイン
Hiragana
くいん
Romaji (Hepburn)
Kuin

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

How Quinn sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Ku
I
N

Full reading: Kuin

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

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 Quinn becomes クイン 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.