洲际

InterContinental Hotels is known as 洲际 (Zhōu jì) in Chinese — 'inter-continental'. 洲 means 'continent/large landmass' and 际 means 'boundary/between'. Together 'between continents' is a perfect semantic translation of 'inter-continental'. IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) is the world's largest hotel company by number of rooms.

Character-by-character pronunciation

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