任天堂

Nintendo has a Chinese name that predates the company's global gaming fame: 任天堂 (Rèn tiān táng) is the Japanese reading of the company's original name, meaning roughly 'leave luck to heaven'. Chinese uses the same characters with Mandarin pronunciation.

Character-by-character pronunciation

任天堂 uses 3 characters to represent the brand name in Chinese. Each character contributes to the phonetic or semantic rendering.