帮宝适

Pampers is rendered as 帮宝适 (Bāng bǎo shì) in Chinese. 帮 means 'to help', 宝 means 'treasure/baby', and 适 means 'suitable/comfortable'. Together 'helping baby be comfortable' is a perfect semantic rendering for a diaper brand, while phonetically approximating 'Pam-per-s'. The Procter & Gamble brand was the world's first commercially marketed disposable diaper.

Character-by-character pronunciation

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