兰蔻

Lancôme is phonetically rendered as 兰蔻 (Lán kòu) in Chinese. 兰 means 'orchid' and 蔻 means 'cardamom' — both fragrant plants. Together 'orchid cardamom' creates an aromatic, botanical name perfect for a French luxury cosmetics brand. Lancôme was founded in 1935 in France and is owned by L'Oréal. Its most iconic product is La Vie est Belle ('Life is Beautiful') perfume.

Character-by-character pronunciation

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