阿斯利康

AstraZeneca is phonetically rendered as 阿斯利康 (Ā sī lì kāng) in Chinese. 阿 is a phonetic prefix, 斯 is a literary phonetic particle, 利 means 'beneficial/sharp', and 康 means 'health/prosperity'. The last two characters 利康 suggest 'beneficial health' — an excellent coincidence for a pharmaceutical company. AstraZeneca is a British-Swedish multinational formed in 1999 through the merger of Astra AB and Zeneca Group.

Character-by-character pronunciation

阿斯利康 uses 4 characters to represent the brand name in Chinese. Each character contributes to the phonetic or semantic rendering.