Name in Japanese J June

June in Japanese

ジューン
Katakana
ジューン
Hiragana
じゅーん
Romaji (Hepburn)
Jūn

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

How June sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

ジュー
N

Full reading: Jūn

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

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 June becomes ジューン 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.