Name in Japanese U Uriel

Uriel in Japanese

ウリエル
Katakana
ウリエル
Hiragana
うりえる
Romaji (Hepburn)
Urieru

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

How Uriel sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

U
Ri
E
Ru

Full reading: Urieru

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

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 Uriel becomes ウリエル 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.