Official documents may follow other rules or keep an earlier spelling. Check with the issuing office before you fill in a form.
Puts the ICAO Doc 9303 spelling used in Russian international passports first: Юлия Щербакова becomes Iuliia Shcherbakova (IULIIA SHCHERBAKOVA in the passport), Алексей becomes Aleksei, and the soft sign disappears. Use it to fill visa and airline forms the way your passport reads.
How to use
- Pick a conversion: Cyrillic, Japanese, Korean or Greek to Latin, Latin to Cyrillic, romaji to kana, accent removal or URL slug.
- Type or paste text. The result updates as you type.
- For Russian, every standard is shown at once – ISO 9, GOST 7.79 B, BGN/PCGN, passport (ICAO) and Ukrainian. Tap the row you need to copy it.
- Use the swap button to send the result back as input, for example to check a romaji spelling.
- Passport spelling follows ICAO Doc 9303, used for Russian international passports since 2014: й → I, ю → IU, я → IA, ъ → IE, ь is dropped.
- GOST 7.79 B uses only ASCII (shh, cz, yu), ISO 9 gives one Latin letter per Cyrillic letter with diacritics (š, č, ŝ) so it can be reversed exactly.
- Japanese kanji have several readings and can’t be romanized without a dictionary, so they are left as they are. Kana, small っ and the long-vowel mark ー are handled.
- Korean follows the 2000 Revised Romanization with common sound changes (liaison, nasal assimilation, ㄹ rules). Turn on letter by letter for a strict transliteration.
Why there is more than one spelling
Transliteration replaces each letter of one script with letters of another, and different users need different trade-offs. ISO 9 (identical to GOST 7.79 system A) gives exactly one Latin letter per Cyrillic letter, using diacritics such as š and ŝ, so the original can be restored. GOST 7.79 B uses plain ASCII (shh, cz, yu) for systems that cannot handle accents. BGN/PCGN is the readable English convention used on maps and in the press. Passports follow ICAO Doc 9303: Юлия becomes IULIIA and Щербаков becomes SHCHERBAKOV.
The same name can therefore be written Yuliya, Iuliia or Julija, and all of them are correct within their system. For official forms, use the spelling already in your passport or the system the form asks for.
Japanese, Korean and Greek
Kana is converted to Hepburn romaji with macrons (とうきょう → Tōkyō), Hepburn without macrons (Tokyo) or Kunrei-shiki (Tôkyô). Kanji have several readings and are left as they are. Korean follows the 2000 Revised Romanization with sound changes, so 종로 becomes Jongno and 신라 becomes Silla; a name mode keeps customary surname spellings such as Kim, Lee and Park. Greek uses ELOT 743, the system also adopted as ISO 843, so Αθήνα becomes Athina.
Frequently asked questions
How is my Russian name written in a passport?
Russian international passports use ICAO Doc 9303 since 2014: й → I, ю → IU, я → IA, ж → ZH, х → KH, ц → TS, щ → SHCH, and the soft sign is dropped. Choose the Passport (ICAO) row.
What is the difference between transliteration and translation?
Transliteration only changes the letters and keeps the words, so Москва becomes Moskva. Translation changes the words into another language, which gives Moscow.
Can the result be converted back to Cyrillic?
Yes for ISO 9, which is one-to-one. The other systems lose information, for example e and э both become e, so converting back may need manual fixes.
Why are kanji not converted?
A kanji usually has several readings that depend on the word, so romanizing it needs a dictionary. Convert text written in hiragana or katakana instead.
Does it work offline and privately?
Yes. All conversion tables are part of the page and run in your browser; nothing you type is sent anywhere.