Name in Japanese H Henrietta

Henrietta in Japanese

ヘンリエッタ
Katakana
ヘンリエッタ
Hiragana
へんりえった
Romaji (Hepburn)
Henrietta

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

How Henrietta sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

He
N
Ri
E
ッタ Tta

Full reading: Henrietta

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Why Henrietta 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, Henrietta appears as ヘンリエッタ. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees ヘンリエッタ and immediately reads it by its sound, Henrietta.

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 Henrietta becomes ヘンリエッタ 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.