Name in Japanese G Gabrielle

Gabrielle in Japanese

ガブリエル
Katakana
ガブリエル
Hiragana
がぶりえる
Romaji (Hepburn)
Gaburieru

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

How Gabrielle sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Ga
Bu
Ri
E
Ru

Full reading: Gaburieru

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Why Gabrielle 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, Gabrielle appears as ガブリエル. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees ガブリエル and immediately reads it by its sound, Gaburieru.

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 Gabrielle becomes ガブリエル 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.