Roman in Japanese Kanji

Pronounced ローマン  ·  ろーまん  ·  roman

How these characters were chosen

Japanese has no letters for foreign names, so a name is first written in katakana — ローマン — 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.

路万 is built from 路 (road), 万 (ten thousand). 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.

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