Paramount in Chinese
派拉蒙
Pài lā méng
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Paramount Pictures is phonetically rendered as 派拉蒙 (Pài lā méng) in Chinese. 派 means 'to dispatch/faction/style', 拉 means 'to pull', and 蒙 means 'to cover/Mongolia'. The combination is purely phonetic. Paramount is one of Hollywood's Big Five studios, founded in 1912 and now owned by Paramount Global. Its iconic mountain logo is one of cinema's most recognizable images.
Character-by-character pronunciation
派Pài
拉lā
蒙méng
派拉蒙 uses 3 characters to represent the brand name in Chinese. Each character contributes to the phonetic or semantic rendering.
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