Best Overall
留菜
るな
The most balanced reading — natural sound, clear meaning.
- 留 remain
- 菜 vegetable
Luna in Japanese Kanji
Pronounced ルナ · るな · runa
Elegant
瑠奈
るな
Softer characters, chosen for how they look and feel on the page.
- 瑠 lapis lazuli
- 奈 phonetic na
Bold
流南
るな
Stronger strokes and more striking meanings.
- 流 flow
- 南 south
How these characters were chosen
Japanese has no letters for foreign names, so a name is first written in katakana — ルナ — 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.
留菜 is built from 留 (remain), 菜 (vegetable). 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.