Name in Japanese V Vision

Vision in Japanese

ビジョン
Katakana
ビジョン
Hiragana
びじょん
Romaji (Hepburn)
Bijon

This is the common, natural katakana for Vision. Katakana approximates English sounds, so a slightly different spelling can also be valid — treat this as a reliable default, not the single "correct" answer.

How Vision sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Bi
ジョ Jo
N

Full reading: Bijon

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Why Vision 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, Vision appears as ビジョン. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees ビジョン and immediately reads it by its sound, Bijon.

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 Vision becomes ビジョン 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.