Ukrainian transliteration

About Ukrainian transliteration

Transliteration is the rendering of Ukrainian words in Latin letters following a single set of rules. The tool above uses the official Ukrainian standard — Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 55 of January 27, 2010. This is the very table used for international passports and geographic names, so the result is fit for documents, domains, and signage.

The key rules of the standard

Official transliteration is not a simple letter-for-letter substitution. The standard has a few rules that DIY transliteration usually gets wrong:

• Position-dependent letters. “Є, ї, й, ю, я” become ye, yi, y, yu, ya at the beginning of a word, but ie, i, i, iu, ia elsewhere: Єнакієве → Yenakiieve.
• The “зг” combination becomes zgh, so it is not confused with “ж” (zh): Згорани → Zghorany, Розгон → Rozghon.
• The soft sign and the apostrophe are not reproduced, and the apostrophe does not split a word: Знамʼянка → Znamianka, not Znamyanka.
• Case is preserved. Жук → Zhuk, and РОЗГІН typed in caps becomes ROZGHIN.

The tool applies all of these rules automatically — including the typographic apostrophes that text editors like to insert instead of the plain one.

Where it comes in handy

The most common scenarios: checking how a first and last name will look in an international passport or on a bank card, choosing a spelling for a domain or an email address, writing a postal address in Latin script for international delivery.

An honest note about documents: the final spelling is always set by the issuing authority. If your current passport already uses a different variant, new documents will usually keep it.

For me, transliteration is everyday developer routine: page slugs, file names, identifiers in code. That is exactly why this tool opens the section.

Your text never leaves the browser

Everything happens on your side: the Latin version appears as you type, the “Copy” button puts the result on your clipboard, and the counters show the length. No server requests, no storage, no analytics of what you type — close the tab, and the text is gone.

There is no length limit either: a single last name or a whole article.

Summary

Transliterating Ukrainian into Latin script takes ten seconds — if the tool at hand knows the official rules. This one does: Resolution No. 55, position-dependent letters, zgh, and all the rest. Free, no sign-up, no limits.

This is the first tool in the section — sprite generators, a keyboard layout fixer, and more utilities are on the way. Keep an eye on the online tools page.