Name in Japanese S Susanna

Susanna in Japanese

スザンナ
Katakana
スザンナ
Hiragana
すざんな
Romaji (Hepburn)
Suzanna

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

How Susanna sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Su
Za
N
Na

Full reading: Suzanna

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Why Susanna 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, Susanna appears as スザンナ. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees スザンナ and immediately reads it by its sound, Suzanna.

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 Susanna becomes スザンナ 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.