Name in Japanese J Jessamine

Jessamine in Japanese

ジェサミン
Katakana
ジェサミン
Hiragana
じぇさみん
Romaji (Hepburn)
Jesamin

This is the common, natural katakana for Jessamine. Katakana approximates English sounds, so a slightly different spelling can also be valid — treat this as a reliable default, not the single "correct" answer.

How Jessamine sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

ジェ Je
Sa
Mi
N

Full reading: Jesamin

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Why Jessamine 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, Jessamine appears as ジェサミン. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees ジェサミン and immediately reads it by its sound, Jesamin.

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 Jessamine becomes ジェサミン 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.