讴歌

Acura is rendered as 讴歌 (Ōu gē) in Chinese. 讴 means 'to sing praises/folk song' and 歌 means 'song'. Together 'praising song' is a lyrical, celebratory name. While phonetically approximating 'A-cu-ra', the meaning is poetic. Acura is Honda's luxury vehicle division, launched in 1986 in North America as the first Japanese luxury automobile brand.

Character-by-character pronunciation

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