Name in Japanese J Jorge

Jorge in Japanese

ホルヘ
Katakana
ホルヘ
Hiragana
ほるへ
Romaji (Hepburn)
Horuhe

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

How Jorge sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Ho
Ru
He

Full reading: Horuhe

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

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 Jorge becomes ホルヘ 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.