Name in Japanese M Marjorie

Marjorie in Japanese

マージョリー
Katakana
マージョリー
Hiragana
まーじょりー
Romaji (Hepburn)
Mājorī

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

How Marjorie sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

マー
ジョ Jo
リー

Full reading: Mājorī

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Why Marjorie 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, Marjorie appears as マージョリー. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees マージョリー and immediately reads it by its sound, Mājorī.

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 Marjorie becomes マージョリー 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.