Jade
ジェイド
Jeido
How It Is Said
- ジェje
- イi
- ドdo
Jeido: three beats, each about the same length. Japanese has no strong stress, so the name is said evenly, beat by beat.
What Happens to the Sounds
- The English a of Jade is said ay, two beats in Japanese: エイ (ei).
- A small kana joins the one before it into one beat: ジェ (je).
Jade is 翡翠 (hisui) in Japanese.
To Type It
On a computer with Japanese input switched on, type jeido, then press F7 on Windows or Control+K on a Mac to turn it into katakana. On a phone, type the same letters with the Japanese keyboard and choose ジェイド among the suggestions.
Why Katakana
In Japan, names from abroad are written in katakana, the script for words from other languages. Kanji versions of Western names are mostly invented, and a Japanese reader often sees odd meanings in them; the katakana is what a Japanese person would really write. More on katakana and names
