汰渍

Tide is rendered as 汰渍 (Tài zì) in Chinese. 汰 means 'to eliminate/wash away' and 渍 means 'stains/blotches'. Together 'eliminate stains' is a perfect semantic description of a laundry detergent. The name also phonetically approximates 'Tide'. Procter & Gamble's Tide was the world's first synthetic detergent and is the top-selling laundry detergent in the United States.

Character-by-character pronunciation

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