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* '''Names from English (and other languages) will not always be a 1 to 1 translation to Japanese.''' Japanese characters use a syllable system rather than individual letters and some sounds in English don't exist in Japanese, so sometimes a translation can only be approximate. By default, Clarity displays player names with their Japanese pronunciations displayed in English for easier reading.
* '''Refrain from making a name with all the same Japanese character or random ones.''' Names like these could be seen as bot accounts or accounts with the intention of RMT (real money trading), which is against the game's ToS. The chance of getting reported is low, but it's best to err on the side of caution.
* '''Keep things simple.''' If you have a username that's something like "SuperAwesomeCoolDude" or randommultiple words/names strung together that you want as your name in Japanese, it's just not going to work for space reasons alone. Names can only contain 6 characters, and complex names that require many characters to represent the word aren't going to fit. Fantasy sounding names usually work well, as do Japanese-sounding names. English names that actually exist work well too.
* '''Names translated into English from Clarity cut off at 10 characters.''' This a limitation to stop the game from crashing.
 
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Unlike English, Japanese has two alphabets: '''hiragana''' and '''katakana'''. Think of hiragana as spelling out how a word sounds. Katakana, on the other hand, is used for foreign or loan words (English words, for example) that don't exist in Japanese language, among other things.
 
You are by no means obligated to stick by thesethis rules"rule", but generallyto make things easier: if you are using a name that is Japanese-sounding or an actual Japanese word, use hiragana. If it's a fantasy-sounding name, an English name, or an otherwise non-Japanese word/name, then use katakana. Japanese players break this "rule" all the time, so it's just a suggestion, and you don't have to follow it if you know what you're doing.
 
Once you've decided what kind of name you want, it's time to choose your name.
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* '''ヤ, ユ, ヨ''' and '''ャ, ュ, ョ'''
* '''ア, イ, ウ, , ''' and '''ァ, ィ, ゥ, ェ, ォ'''
* '''ン''' and '''ソ'''
* '''ク''' and '''ケ'''
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