思科

Cisco is phonetically rendered as 思科 (Sī kē) in Chinese. 思 means 'to think/thought' and 科 means 'science/subject/branch'. Together 'thinking science' creates an apt name for a networking technology company. Cisco was founded in 1984 in San Jose, California by Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner. The name comes from 'San Francisco'. Cisco is the world's largest networking hardware and software company.

Character-by-character pronunciation

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