Name in Japanese T Tatiana

Tatiana in Japanese

タチアナ
Katakana
タチアナ
Hiragana
たちあな
Romaji (Hepburn)
Tachiana

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

How Tatiana sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Ta
Chi
A
Na

Full reading: Tachiana

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

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 Tatiana becomes タチアナ 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.