Brooklyn (burukkurin) in Japanese

The name Brooklyn in Japanese Katakana is ブルックリン which in romaji is burukkurin. Katakana is the standard translation for names into Japanese, Brooklyn in Japanese Hiragana, the non-standard translation for names into Japanese, is ぶるっくりん.

How do you write Brooklyn in Japanese Kanji?

The closest sounding kanji name that sounds similar to "brooklyn" is 武留金 (ぶるくきん), pronounced "bu-ru-ku-kin". The kanji characters mean "military/martial" (武), "retain/hold" (留), and "gold/metal" (金).

The western meaning of the name Brooklyn is "water or stream". The closest matching Kanji name based on this meaning is 水川 (Sui-kawa). This is pronounced with two syllables: Sui (meaning water) and Kawa (meaning river or stream). The Kanji characters mean "water" and "river" respectively.

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