汉莎航空

Lufthansa is rendered as 汉莎航空 (Hàn shā háng kōng) in Chinese. 汉莎 phonetically approximates 'Hansa' (the historical German trading alliance from which Lufthansa gets its name), while 航空 means aviation. The 'Han' character (汉) also refers to the Han Chinese people/dynasty, giving the name an interesting cross-cultural resonance.

Character-by-character pronunciation

汉莎航空 uses 4 characters to represent the brand name in Chinese. Each character contributes to the phonetic or semantic rendering.