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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majestic" data-source="post: 798521" data-attributes="member: 61235">Its hard to say because Japanese usually write western personal names in the phonetic katakana script - like this キルスティン - rather than in kanji. You could make up a name using kanji that represent the different sounds in "Kirsten", but it would just be a made-up name, using approximated sounds, and not everybody would immediately recognize it as a name. It would just be a jumble of kanji.The Chinese use kanji exclusively, so, for example, Kirsten as in "Kirsten Dunst" is written as 克斯汀 . However since Japanese kanji is used differently, a Japanese person would not recognize the above (because of the different pronunciation, and because the final kanji doesn't exist in Japanese). Sorry to be a bit boring on this, but its not as simple as it would seem. As I said, you could fake a Japanese kanji name by applying certain kanji to represent the sounds - for example 喜瑠須典, but it is just one of a million plausible renderings. Using an approximation like this, and not realizing it is an approximation, could lead to embarrassment or disappointment. If you got it written on a t-shirt or tattooed on your body, and then expected all Japanese people to instantly recognize it as "Kirsten", you would be shocked and upset when they are unable to read it or unable to realize it is trying to say Kirsten in Japanese. The following site offers a different, also plausible version of the name;<a href="http://www.sljfaq.org/cgi/name-kanji.cgi?e=kirsten&prev_kana=&prev_e=">Change your name to kanji</a>Also realize that kanji have meanings, and while you try to find one that approximates the sounds, you should also be conscious of the meanings.</blockquote>

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