Name in Japanese T Tara

Tara in Japanese

タラ
Katakana
タラ
Hiragana
たら
Romaji (Hepburn)
Tara

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

How Tara sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Ta
Ra

Full reading: Tara

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

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 Tara becomes タラ 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.