Best Overall
真伊留図
まいるず
The most balanced reading — natural sound, clear meaning.
- 真 genuine
- 伊 phonetic i
- 留 remain
- 図 plan
Miles in Japanese Kanji
Pronounced マイルズ · まいるず · mairuzu
Elegant
茉衣瑠瑞
まいるず
Softer characters, chosen for how they look and feel on the page.
- 茉 jasmine
- 衣 clothing
- 瑠 lapis lazuli
- 瑞 auspicious
Bold
磨威流随
まいるず
Stronger strokes and more striking meanings.
- 磨 polish
- 威 dignity
- 流 flow
- 随 follow
How these characters were chosen
Japanese has no letters for foreign names, so a name is first written in katakana — マイルズ — 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.
真伊留図 is built from 真 (genuine), 伊 (phonetic i), 留 (remain), 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.