Name in Japanese J Jacqueline

Jacqueline in Japanese

ジャクリーン
Katakana
ジャクリーン
Hiragana
じゃくりーん
Romaji (Hepburn)
Jakurīn

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

How Jacqueline sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

ジャ Ja
Ku
リー
N

Full reading: Jakurīn

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Why Jacqueline 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, Jacqueline appears as ジャクリーン. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees ジャクリーン and immediately reads it by its sound, Jakurīn.

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 Jacqueline becomes ジャクリーン 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.