My Name in Japanese

My name is sometimes Careth and Sometimes Cari, I want to know how to write both in Japanese.

I'll take a punt .... Cari would be Kari (カり） and Karethi　（かれてぃ）but i may be wrong ... there's no direct translation if that's what you're after.

Katakana is in the brackets.

Neil, you have mixed up your hiragana and katakana a bit- you gave Cari with a mix of both and Careth in hiragana.

Cari, for us to give you a more accurate rendering of your katakana name, you need to give us an idea of how your names are pronounced, since they are not common. For example, is the 'i' in Cari long or short? Does it rhyme with "carry" or is the 'a' different? And do you pronounce the 'th' in Careth as a normal 'th' in English, or does it sound more like a 't'? All of this makes aquite a difference in how it would be written.

For Cari its like Car-ee not carry. For Careth it sounds like the breath but its Ca-Reth.

Cari would look like カーりイ
Careth would be カッレス i think.
Kinda sounds like Caress when you say it in Japanese, but that's cuz they don't have the -th sound.

Miyuki, I'm guessing you're not a native Japanese speaker as you have also got a hiragana "ri" in the middle of your katakana. This is the hiragana: り, and this is the katakana symbol: リ　- see the difference? I know they are similar.

Also in a katakana name a vowel is usually extended with a long bar- this symbol： ー

It is a bit odd to have a small tsu (ッ) before an "r" sound and I don't think it's necessary here.

Based on what Cari has told us, I would say Cari is カリー, and Careth is カレス- yes, it does come out sounding like "caress" in Japanese.

I'm pretty confident of these since I spent some time studying katakana transliteration in my Japanese linguistics course at university, but hopefully a native speaker will come along and give a final confirmation.

Just wanted to add that Cari could also be 　カーリー if both vowels are long, but both vowels need the ー　symbol so it wouldn't be カーリイ.

I'm not a native speaker... but I do know the difference between り and リ　on the computer. It was just a simple typo. No need to be condescending as you aren't a native speaker either.

Katakana spelling isn't my favorite part of Japanese... but I tried to give it a shot and was hoping for someone to correct me if I was wrong.

Miyuki, I wasn't trying to be condescending, because of your screen name I had wondered if you were Japanese or not, and I still wasn't 100% sure so I wrote "I'm guessing you're not a native speaker".

No sarcasm intended anywhere in my answer whatsoever, I truly was just guessing, and I'm sorry you read it that way. I apologise for pointing out the difference between the two "ri" when you already knew, but I didn't know that you knew...

I'm also unsure of my versions of the name, which is why I hope someone like AK or Uco will come along, but they seem to be staying away.

----Careth and Sometimes Cari...I want to know how to write both in Japanese.------

Usually go by how you pronounce your name.
How do you pronounce your names?

For instance most Americans may pronounce Cari as　キャリ(kyari)　or close to that. British may pronounce it differently so would Australians, Swedish etc..
Careth depends on how you pronouce it too..is it キャレス(kyaresu)？