Name in Japanese T Troy

Troy in Japanese

トロイ
Katakana
トロイ
Hiragana
とろい
Romaji (Hepburn)
Toroi

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

How Troy sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

To
Ro
I

Full reading: Toroi

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

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 Troy becomes トロイ 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.