百加得

Bacardi is phonetically rendered as 百加得 (Bǎi jiā dé) in Chinese. 百 means 'hundred/a great deal', 加 means 'to add/increase', and 得 means 'to obtain/gain'. Together 'hundredfold gain' has a wonderfully auspicious commercial meaning for a spirits brand. Bacardi was founded in 1862 in Cuba by Don Facundo Bacardí Massó and is now the world's largest privately-held spirits company.

Character-by-character pronunciation

百加得 uses 3 characters to represent the brand name in Chinese. Each character contributes to the phonetic or semantic rendering.