Best Overall
安道流
あんどりゅー
The most balanced reading — natural sound, clear meaning.
- 安 safety
- 道 path
- 流 flow
Andrew in Japanese Kanji
Pronounced アンドリュー · あんどりゅー · andoryu
Elegant
杏堂琉
あんどりゅー
Softer characters, chosen for how they look and feel on the page.
- 杏 apricot
- 堂 grand
- 琉 lapis-like jewel
Bold
暗土流
あんどりゅー
Stronger strokes and more striking meanings.
- 暗 dark
- 土 earth
- 流 flow
How these characters were chosen
Japanese has no letters for foreign names, so a name is first written in katakana — アンドリュー — which records how it sounds. Kanji are then chosen whose readings match those sounds. Because many characters share the same reading, there is never a single correct spelling; there are only choices, and each one changes what the name says.
安道流 is built from 安 (safety), 道 (path), 流 (flow). Every character here comes from a hand-checked dictionary, and combinations that happen to spell an ordinary Japanese word are rejected before you ever see them.