Best Overall
米良
べら
The most balanced reading — natural sound, clear meaning.
- 米 grain
- 良 good
Vera in Japanese Kanji
Pronounced ベラ · べら · bera
Elegant
勉蘭
べら
Softer characters, chosen for how they look and feel on the page.
- 勉 effort
- 蘭 orchid
Bold
弁雷
べら
Stronger strokes and more striking meanings.
- 弁 speech
- 雷 thunder
How these characters were chosen
Japanese has no letters for foreign names, so a name is first written in katakana — ベラ — 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.
米良 is built from 米 (grain), 良 (good). 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.