How to say "Sheriff" in Japanese? I assumed with my very limited knowledge it would be , however when I put it into a sentence with Google Translate, instead was represented as , and pronounced rather than . So now I want to confirm what the proper way to say/write "Sheriff" is. I think perhaps Google Translate pronouncing it could simply be it misreading Kanji, and I do not know enough about Kanji to be sure so I want to ask... What is the proper way to pronounce/write "Sheriff" and would it change depending on if I'm using it in a sentence, or other specific context?

Oh, Google Translate does something especially weird and confusing in this case...

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(And the voice synthesizer says "Jon Hoankan"! I wonder how they programmed this...)

If your character is like this or this, their title is translated as , which is a kanji word pronounced or "hoankan". is the correct pronunciation, and that `sherifu` on the right of the picture is purely wrong. (I know nothing about the legal details, but is a recurring title in fiction of the "wild west" settings.)

You can _transliterate_ "sheriff" as in katakana, but ordinary Japanese people do not understand its meaning at all.