This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

• Lexulous
• Wordscraper
• Wordosaur

v. Present participle of transliterate.

"Could be, but the book is pretty thoroughly proofread as was commonly the case in those bygone days of yore, and if she were straighforwardly transliterating the Japanese word she would presumably have used a k, not a c."

transliterated    transliterates    transliterating   

rewrite   

transcribe   

transliteration    transliterator   

Romanize    braille    latinise    romanise    Latinize   

transcribe    decode