佳得乐

Gatorade is phonetically rendered as 佳得乐 (Jiā dé lè) in Chinese. 佳 means 'excellent/fine', 得 means 'to obtain/achieve', and 乐 means 'joy/happy'. Together 'excellently achieved joy' has athletic success written into it — fitting for a sports drink. Gatorade was developed in 1965 at the University of Florida for the Gators football team. It is owned by PepsiCo and is the world's leading sports drink brand.

Character-by-character pronunciation

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