Transliteration is a names conversion method between different alphabetic and/or syllabic scripts, in which each character (or character combination) is represented in the target script by one character (or character combination). Examples:

Transliteration, as distinct from transcription, aims at (but does not necessarily achieve) complete reversibility. Reversibility here means a characteristic which permits a written item to be converted from one script into another, and subsequently reconverted back into the source script, the result being identical with the original.