Best Overall
花山道良
かさんどら
The most balanced reading — natural sound, clear meaning.
- 花 flower
- 山 mountain
- 道 path
- 良 good
Cassandra in Japanese Kanji
Pronounced カサンドラ · かさんどら · kasandora
Elegant
香讃堂蘭
かさんどら
Softer characters, chosen for how they look and feel on the page.
- 香 fragrance
- 讃 praise
- 堂 grand
- 蘭 orchid
Bold
鹿燦土雷
かさんどら
Stronger strokes and more striking meanings.
- 鹿 deer
- 燦 brilliant
- 土 earth
- 雷 thunder
How these characters were chosen
Japanese has no letters for foreign names, so a name is first written in katakana — カサンドラ — 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.
花山道良 is built from 花 (flower), 山 (mountain), 道 (path), 良 (good). 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.