Writing Your Name in Japanese Kanji

Domo Konnichiwa,

As always, the atmosphere still about Japanese.

This article marks what Japanese Fans probably wanted to read.

Imagine your name written graphically unique strokes in Japanese character that you want to put it in your room or even make a tattoo for it.
For beginner of Japanese learner this probably leading to a disappointment.
The regular terms for writing your name (non-Japanese) into Japanese is not as some sort of poetic composition as Kanji. Instead, character that do not carry any deeper beyond meaning as Katakana being used to writing non-Japanese names.

Katakana is based on reproducing the alphabetical and vocal pronunciation into Japanese.

For Instance is my own name

Fullname :

 Hadimas Adi Pamungkas Choirul Amir

Katakana :

ハディマス　アディ　パムンカス　コイルる　アミル

Nickname :

Hapka

Katakana :

ハプカ

You can try your name in here, even though there is some sort of rules to synchronize the origin pronunciation of your name into Japanese pronunciation.

However, you can not really writing your name in Japanese Kanji while your name is not in Japanese. Understand that whatever you got from your friend, when Japanese people (or at least people with knowledge of the Japanese language) meet foreigners and need a quick conversation topic, they often like to jump on the name and “turn it into kanji”, as an ice breaker.

Or there are one of two things. They either take the sound of your name, and then deliberately search for the most resemble Japanese Kanji possible to use as syllables, For example my nick name Hapka could be segmented into the three sounds ha-pu-ka. In that scheme, the “Ha” part could be something like 葉 (leaves), 羽 (feather) or 映 (project,reflect), while the “pu” could be 風 or 符 or 布 (wind/symbol/style), and so on.
For the result write Hapka as “Leaves the extraordinary symbol” 葉符力 like this, or “Deer feather style” 羽布鹿, or… well, you probably get it.

You may found some trick to pronounce those kanji in an obscure way that mimics the sound of your name. but any other Japanese person would not be able to read it.
In fact, they wouldn’t even be able to tell that it is a name at all.
So, unfortunately: no, whatever you got there is absolutely not “your name in Japanese kanji”. Because outside of jokes or party tricks, there is no real way to create something like that. So please don’t make the mistake of printing anything like it on business cards.

The other way to find your Japanese Kanji name is by translating your name into Japanese name itself..
First thing first is find meaning of your name, you can find it by asking your parents or simply googling it.
I use my name for example again

Hadimas : Brother
Adi : The
Pamungkas : Last
Choirul : Excellent / Righteous
Amir : King / Leader

So it can be pronounce as The Last brother an Excellent King.

If you already find the meaning of your name, the next step will be discover the common Japanese names related to your name. 
For my name, the possible matches are
Family name : Oosue 大末(The Great Last), Hikozaka 彦坂 (The Hill Prince), Yoshihiko 吉彦(The Good Prince)

Surname : 
Shoichiro 正一郎 (Right First Son),  王良 (Good King), 末利 (Last Winner), 末男 (Last Man)

So the fullname will be :

大末 正一郎

彦坂 末利

吉彦 末男

You can find the actual names that Japanese used in here.

If you understand my concept you can try it to your self and find plenty customization, Enjoy..
Sorry for anyone held by that name and have a different opinion and deeper meaning, this is just personal idea.

But no matter whether they go, either way the results of this game are invariably utterly nonsensical to anyone else, and do not produce an actual usable name.

Writing Katakana

Japanese names (Kanji)