Name in Japanese J Justine

Justine in Japanese

ジャスティン
Katakana
ジャスティン
Hiragana
じゃすてぃん
Romaji (Hepburn)
Jasutin

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

How Justine sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

ジャ Ja
Su
ティ Ti
N

Full reading: Jasutin

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Why Justine 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, Justine appears as ジャスティン. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees ジャスティン and immediately reads it by its sound, Jasutin.

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 Justine becomes ジャスティン 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.