Name in Japanese S Sharon

Sharon in Japanese

シャロン
Katakana
シャロン
Hiragana
しゃろん
Romaji (Hepburn)
Sharon

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

How Sharon sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

シャ Sha
Ro
N

Full reading: Sharon

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

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 Sharon becomes シャロン 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.