空客

Airbus is semantically rendered as 空客 (Kōng kè) in Chinese. 空 means 'air/sky' and 客 means 'passenger/guest'. Together the name means 'sky passenger transport' — a clear semantic translation of 'air' and 'bus' that works intuitively in Chinese.

Character-by-character pronunciation

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