Best Overall
譲音図
じょーんず
The most balanced reading — natural sound, clear meaning.
- 譲音 hand over
- 図 plan
Jones in Japanese Kanji
Pronounced ジョーンズ · じょーんず · jonzu
Elegant
城音瑞
じょーんず
Softer characters, chosen for how they look and feel on the page.
- 城音 castle
- 瑞 auspicious
Bold
丈音随
じょーんず
Stronger strokes and more striking meanings.
- 丈音 height
- 随 follow
How these characters were chosen
Japanese has no letters for foreign names, so a name is first written in katakana — ジョーンズ — 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.
譲音図 is built from 譲音 (hand over), 図 (plan). 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.