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I assumed with my very limited knowledge it would be シェリフ, however when I put
it into a sentence with Google Translate, シェリフ instead was represented as 保安官,
and pronounced ホアンカン rather than シェリフ. So now I want to confirm what the
proper way to say/write "Sheriff" is. I think perhaps Google Translate
pronouncing it ホアンカン 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?
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How to say "Sheriff" in Japanese?
I'm really a beginner on japanese, but maybe this can be helpful:

Searching at [Jisho](http://jisho.org) (an amazing dictionary, if you don't
know it yet) for "sheriff", I found the [same
kanji](https://jisho.org/word/%E4%BF%9D%E5%AE%89%E5%AE%98) that you got on
Google Translate, with the same pronunciation (ほあんかん). Also, searching for
this kanji on Google images, I found these two images:

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tw8sg.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tw8sg.png)
[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/U1rhS.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/U1rhS.png)

It is from a manga called 保安官エヴァンスの嘘 or The Lies of Sheriff Evans. So, ほあんかん
seems to really shows the meaning that you want.
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Oh, Google Translate does something especially weird and confusing in this
case...

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8hRAA.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8hRAA.png)

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

If your character is like
[this](https://backtothefuture.fandom.com/wiki/James_Strickland) or
[this](https://reddead.fandom.com/wiki/Leigh_Johnson), their title is
translated as 保安官, which is a kanji word pronounced ほあんかん or "hoankan". ほあんかん
is the correct pronunciation, and that `sherifu` on the right of the picture
is purely wrong. (I know nothing about the legal details, but 保安官 is a
recurring title in fiction of the "wild west" settings.)

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