Honda in Chinese

本田

Běn tián

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Honda's Chinese name 本田 (Běn tián) directly translates the Japanese family name 本田 (Honda): 本 means 'origin/root' and 田 means 'field'. The same characters are used in Japanese and Chinese, reflecting the founder Soichiro Honda's family name.

Character-by-character pronunciation

Běn
tián

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

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