Name in Japanese J Janet

Janet in Japanese

ジャネット
Katakana
ジャネット
Hiragana
じゃねっと
Romaji (Hepburn)
Janetto

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

How Janet sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

ジャ Ja
Ne
ット Tto

Full reading: Janetto

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Why Janet 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, Janet appears as ジャネット. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees ジャネット and immediately reads it by its sound, Janetto.

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 Janet becomes ジャネット 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.