ANA in Chinese
全日空
Quán rì kōng
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ANA (All Nippon Airways) is known by its Japanese name 全日空 (Quán rì kōng) in Chinese, which directly translates its Japanese name: 全日本空輸 (All-Japan Air Transport). 全 means 'complete/all', 日 refers to Japan (日本), and 空 means 'air/sky'. The same Chinese characters are used in both Japanese and Chinese.
Character-by-character pronunciation
全Quán
日rì
空kōng
全日空 uses 3 characters to represent the brand name in Chinese. Each character contributes to the phonetic or semantic rendering.
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