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I am wondering how you would translate the short i sound in words like bin,
fin, thin into katakana. I am trying to translate my name which contains this
sound (with a preceding r). I don't think ィwould be accurate here, but I'm not
sure what is used conventionally.
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How to translate English short i sound into katakana
Nope, this does correspond to kana ending in -i. Look at loanwords such as
インパクト "impact" [ˈɪmpækt]. So if your name were Rin [ɹɪn], that would
correspond to リン.
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Japanese has exactly five vowel sounds: //a//, //i//, //u//, //e//, and //o//.

English has eleven or twelve, maybe more, depending on your dialect, as
cataloged [here at
Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language#Vowels).

Since 11 > 5, you're going to have some vowel sounds in English that just
don't have an exact match in Japanese. The best you can do is find a
reasonably close approximation.

For purposes of the "short I" //ɪ// sound like in English _thin_ , the closest
match in Japanese is the //i// sound as spelled using the kana starting from
イ. This vowel with a preceding "R" would be spelled in katakana as リ.
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