阿里巴巴

Alibaba's Chinese name 阿里巴巴 (Ā lǐ bā bā) is a phonetic transliteration of the Arabic tale character Ali Baba. Founder Jack Ma chose this name specifically because it was easy to pronounce in many languages, including Chinese.

Character-by-character pronunciation

阿里巴巴 uses 4 characters to represent the brand name in Chinese. Each character contributes to the phonetic or semantic rendering.