Name in Japanese B Brigitte

Brigitte in Japanese

ブリジット
Katakana
ブリジット
Hiragana
ぶりじっと
Romaji (Hepburn)
Burijitto

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

How Brigitte sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Bu
Ri
Ji
ット Tto

Full reading: Burijitto

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Why Brigitte 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, Brigitte appears as ブリジット. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees ブリジット and immediately reads it by its sound, Burijitto.

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 Brigitte becomes ブリジット 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.