Free Japanese Name & Kanji Tools

Japanese Name GeneratorYour name in kanji, with every character's meaning explained and an honest verified/estimate label.Start here → English to KatakanaThe standard Japanese script for foreign names — how your name is actually written in Japan.Convert your name → Japanese Font GeneratorSee any Japanese text in eight brush, mincho, and handwriting fonts. Copy or download as image.Style your text → Hanko Seal GeneratorA traditional red name-seal — Japan's signature — as a transparent, print-resolution PNG.Make your seal → Kanji Tattoo CheckerCatches simplified-Chinese characters, non-words, and famous tattoo disasters before the needle does.Check before ink → Stroke Order AnimatorWatch any kanji or kana drawn stroke by stroke in the official order, with numbered starting points.Learn to write it → Kanji to HiraganaPaste Japanese text and get its reading in hiragana — full dictionary analysis in your browser.Get the reading → Kanji to RomajiThe same analysis, romanized — so you can pronounce any Japanese text from zero.Romanize it →

Which tool do you actually need?

  • "I want my name in Japanese." Two honest answers. The everyday, official way foreigners' names are written is katakana — the katakana converter gives you that. The artistic way, where characters are chosen for sound and meaning, is kanji — that's the name generator. Katakana is how Japan writes you; kanji is a crafted monogram. Get both, use each where it belongs.
  • "I have my Japanese name — now I want to do something with it." The font generator shows it in calligraphy and handwriting styles, the hanko generator turns it into a red seal, and the stroke order animator teaches you to write it by hand.
  • "I found Japanese text and want to know how it reads." Kanji to hiragana if you can read kana, kanji to romaji if you can't yet.
  • "This is going on my skin." The tattoo checker, before anything else — and then a free human check by email, because a machine can verify characters but not judgment.

The rule all eight tools follow

Every result on this site is labeled one of two ways: native-checked — a native Japanese speaker chose or verified it by hand — or automatic estimate — generated by rules that are honest about being rules. And when a tool can't do something well, it says so and routes you to a person instead of printing a wrong answer with confidence. That's the entire editorial policy, and it exists because the internet is full of Japanese "generators" that will happily set your name in a Chinese font with characters no Japanese person would choose. The long version is on how we choose kanji.

Free, private, yours

All eight tools are free and run in your browser — what you type never reaches our server. Whatever they generate is yours to use, commercial projects included, under the fonts' open licenses and our plain-English terms. If a tool gives you something wrong, strange, or just disappointing, tell us — the native-checked dictionaries grow from exactly those reports.