Best Overall
花手伊須
かーてぃす
The most balanced reading — natural sound, clear meaning.
- 花 flower
- 手伊 hand
- 須 necessary
Curtis in Japanese Kanji
Pronounced カーティス · かーてぃす · katisu
Elegant
香典衣澄
かーてぃす
Softer characters, chosen for how they look and feel on the page.
- 香 fragrance
- 典衣 scripture
- 澄 clear
Bold
鹿鉄威洲
かーてぃす
Stronger strokes and more striking meanings.
- 鹿 deer
- 鉄威 iron
- 洲 sandbar
How these characters were chosen
Japanese has no letters for foreign names, so a name is first written in katakana — カーティス — 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.
花手伊須 is built from 花 (flower), 手伊 (hand), 須 (necessary). 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.