Name in Japanese Y Yasmin

Yasmin in Japanese

ヤスミン
Katakana
ヤスミン
Hiragana
やすみん
Romaji (Hepburn)
Yasumin

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

How Yasmin sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Ya
Su
Mi
N

Full reading: Yasumin

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Why Yasmin 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, Yasmin appears as ヤスミン. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees ヤスミン and immediately reads it by its sound, Yasumin.

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 Yasmin becomes ヤスミン 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.