Name in Japanese B Beatrice

Beatrice in Japanese

ベアトリス
Katakana
ベアトリス
Hiragana
べあとりす
Romaji (Hepburn)
Beatorisu

This is the established spelling used for Beatrice in Japanese dictionaries, books and media.

How Beatrice sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Be
A
To
Ri
Su

Full reading: Beatorisu

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Why Beatrice is written in katakana

In Japanese, foreign names are written in katakana — the angular script reserved for words borrowed from other languages. So on a form, a name tag, a delivery slip or a news article in Japan, Beatrice appears as ベアトリス. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees ベアトリス and immediately reads it by its sound, Beatorisu.

Katakana is a syllabary, so English sounds are fitted to the nearest Japanese syllables and every consonant (except ん) is followed by a vowel. That is why Beatrice becomes ベアトリス rather than a letter-for-letter copy. More than one katakana spelling can be reasonable for the same name, which is why we flag whether a spelling is a long-established one or a natural default.