松下

Panasonic's Chinese name 松下 (Sōng xià) is the direct reading of the founder's Japanese name 松下 (Matsushita). 松 means 'pine tree' and 下 means 'below/under'. Konosuke Matsushita founded the company in 1918 in Osaka. The brand was known as Matsushita until 2008, when it unified globally under the Panasonic name, but the Chinese market still widely uses 松下.

Character-by-character pronunciation

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