Name in Japanese J Jack

Jack in Japanese

ジャック
Katakana
ジャック
Hiragana
じゃっく
Romaji (Hepburn)
Jakku

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

How Jack sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

ジャ Ja
ック Kku

Full reading: Jakku

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Why Jack 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, Jack appears as ジャック. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees ジャック and immediately reads it by its sound, Jakku.

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 Jack becomes ジャック 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.