Name in Japanese J Julius

Julius in Japanese

ジュリアス
Katakana
ジュリアス
Hiragana
じゅりあす
Romaji (Hepburn)
Juriasu

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

How Julius sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

ジュ Ju
Ri
A
Su

Full reading: Juriasu

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Why Julius 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, Julius appears as ジュリアス. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees ジュリアス and immediately reads it by its sound, Juriasu.

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 Julius becomes ジュリアス 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.