Name in Japanese G Guillermo

Guillermo in Japanese

ギレルモ
Katakana
ギレルモ
Hiragana
ぎれるも
Romaji (Hepburn)
Girerumo

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

How Guillermo sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Gi
Re
Ru
Mo

Full reading: Girerumo

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Why Guillermo 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, Guillermo appears as ギレルモ. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees ギレルモ and immediately reads it by its sound, Girerumo.

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 Guillermo becomes ギレルモ 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.