汇丰

HSBC (Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) is known by its original Chinese name 汇丰 (Huì fēng), established when the bank was founded in Hong Kong in 1865. 汇 means 'exchange/remittance' and 丰 means 'abundant'. The English abbreviation HSBC came later.

Character-by-character pronunciation

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