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I've learned that if you're translating a name into Japanese you have to
translate it by the sound. I want to translate the name "Tymoteusz". I think
the name itself is Greek but the writing is Polish, however it's not Japanese
so I need katakana. I started translating.

The first sound is a "t" and then "y" (you read the "y" in polish
[⟨ɘ⟩](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-mid_central_unrounded_vowel)).
There is no sound in Japanese that sounds like this so I used チ.

Then the next sounds are pretty easy. First just a モ. Then テ. And then ウ.

So I got チモテウ. Now I need the last sound. You read "sz" like a English "sh"
([⟨ʃ⟩](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_postalveolar_fricative#Voiceless_palato-
alveolar_fricative)). I've heard Japanese People using this soind, but I have
no Idea how to write it. Can someone help me?

How to write
[⟨ʃ⟩](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_postalveolar_fricative#Voiceless_palato-
alveolar_fricative) in Japanese? And is my translation correct (all sounds
without IPA sound like the Japanese ones)?
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How to write the English "sh" ⟨ʃ⟩ in Japanese?
In general, the lone-standing [ʃ] tends to be represented, as it is the case
with most of the consonants, with the U vowel: thus, I'd expect it to be
rendered as シュ.

Luckily, we can check that: by putting "Tymoteusz" into the Japanese Wikipedia
search, we can learn whether there are precedents and how famous people with
that name are rendered. On
[this](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%99%E3%82%A2%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%89%E3%82%A5%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A9)
page, for example, I find it written as 「ティモテウシュ」, as expected.

By the way, while it is true that native (and Sino-Japanese) words do not
contain a separate from チ, most Japanese have no problem with pronouncing it,
and there is a standardized way of writing it: ティ. (Of course, the vowel is
not an exact match, but it is specifically rendered to Japanese as [i]: [like
here](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%83%AF%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%AF%E3%83%952%E4%B8%96_\(%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E7%8E%8B\)).)

So, ティモテウシュ is the answer.
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