花旗银行

Citibank is rendered as 花旗银行 (Huā qí yín háng) in Chinese — 'flower flag bank'. 花旗 (flower flag) is an old Chinese name for the United States, derived from the stars on the American flag resembling flowers. 银行 means bank. This historical Chinese-American cultural reference makes 花旗 one of the most poetic bank name translations in China.

Character-by-character pronunciation

花旗银行 uses 4 characters to represent the brand name in Chinese. Each character contributes to the phonetic or semantic rendering.