3M

3M (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company) is used as-is (3M) in Chinese markets, with the full Chinese expansion 明尼苏达矿务及制造业公司. The brand's individual products like Post-it (便利贴, biànlì tiē) and Scotch tape (思高胶带, sī gāo jiāodài) have their own Chinese names.

Character-by-character pronunciation

3M uses 2 characters to represent the brand name in Chinese. Each character contributes to the phonetic or semantic rendering.