Name in Japanese J Judith

Judith in Japanese

ジュディス
Katakana
ジュディス
Hiragana
じゅでぃす
Romaji (Hepburn)
Judisu

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

How Judith sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

ジュ Ju
ディ Di
Su

Full reading: Judisu

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Why Judith 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, Judith appears as ジュディス. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees ジュディス and immediately reads it by its sound, Judisu.

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 Judith becomes ジュディス 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.