AVA in Japanese? Trying to figure out the proper way to write Ava in Japanese. I see there are several types of Japanese alphabets so lost on which is the correct way. It's my daughter's name and she's a martial artist so wanted to get her name done in Japanese. Thanks

It depends on how her name is pronounced in English. If it's pronounced "AH-va," I would write it as in the link l'electeur offered: . If it's pronounced "EH-va," I would write it:

In general, translation requests are out of the scope of this forum, but yesterday I was wondering how to write "Laertes" in Katakana, and it turns out there are a bunch of different ways, which I thought was interesting.

Addendum: While is a common transliteration, I agree with Ben below that is more faithful.