Name in Japanese J Jill

Jill in Japanese

ジル
Katakana
ジル
Hiragana
じる
Romaji (Hepburn)
Jiru

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

How Jill sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Ji
Ru

Full reading: Jiru

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

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 Jill becomes ジル 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.