New Balance in Chinese
新百伦
Xīn bǎi lún
SportswearNaming strategyPhonetic + semantic blend
New Balance is rendered as 新百伦 (Xīn bǎi lún) in Chinese. 新 means 'new', 百 means 'hundred/a great number', and 伦 means 'peer/relation'. Together 'new hundred peers' phonetically approximates 'New Bal-ance' while the meaning has a sense of innovation and excellence among peers.
Character-by-character pronunciation
新Xīn
百bǎi
伦lún
新百伦 uses 3 characters to represent the brand name in Chinese. Each character contributes to the phonetic or semantic rendering.
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