Name in Japanese T Trina

Trina in Japanese

トリーナ
Katakana
トリーナ
Hiragana
とりーな
Romaji (Hepburn)
Torīna

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

How Trina sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

To
リー
Na

Full reading: Torīna

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

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 Trina becomes トリーナ 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.