Best Overall
宇図
うっず
The most balanced reading — natural sound, clear meaning.
- 宇 space
- 図 plan
Woods in Japanese Kanji
Pronounced ウッズ · うっず · uzu
Elegant
羽瑞
うっず
Softer characters, chosen for how they look and feel on the page.
- 羽 feather
- 瑞 auspicious
Bold
烏随
うっず
Stronger strokes and more striking meanings.
- 烏 crow
- 随 follow
How these characters were chosen
Japanese has no letters for foreign names, so a name is first written in katakana — ウッズ — 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.
宇図 is built from 宇 (space), 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.