Colleen in Japanese Kanji

Pronounced コリーン  ·  こりーん  ·  korin

How these characters were chosen

Japanese has no letters for foreign names, so a name is first written in katakana — コリーン — 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.

心凛 is built from 心 (spirit), 凛 (dignified). 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.

Other names