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Originally Posted by Amnell
Well, it's simple, really. The gaijin just takes the Japanese version of his name (Amnell=amuneeru, for instance) and selects whatever Kanji he/she desires to achieve the necessary sounds.
The first website allows you to input multiple sounds at the same time so you don't have to keep going back and doing it over again. It also, from what I've seen, only gives you two possibilities per sound, which is kind of a bummer.
These are shortcuts, though. I had much more fun poring through saiga-jp.com's kanji dictionary looking for kanji that had meanings that I liked. In fact, I ended up selecting kanji for my real name that didn't even show up on either of the two websites I posted in this thread.
Oh, and it's just the nature of Kanji--having two or three readings per character and all, that it can be ambiguous. I think that's why usually people ask "how do you write your name" AFTER they already what the name is.
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It's not really that simple. Kanji has MEANING, so if you just pick random characters that CAN be pronounced to fit your name 1) It probably won't be seen as a "name" but at "gibberish" and 2) The chances that the multiple kanji who have chosen (and knowing each individual kanji could have half a dozen or more readings) will actually come out as sounding like your name is pretty slim.