吉列

Gillette is phonetically rendered as 吉列 (Jí liè) in Chinese. 吉 means 'auspicious/lucky' and 列 means 'to arrange/line'. The auspicious opening character 吉 gives the brand a positive omen, while the overall phonetics approximate 'Gilette'. King Camp Gillette founded the company in 1901 and invented the safety razor with replaceable blades.

Character-by-character pronunciation

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