Toyota in Chinese

丰田

Fēng tián

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Toyota's Chinese name 丰田 (Fēng tián) is a translation of the Japanese characters 豊田 (Toyoda, the founder's family name): 丰 means 'abundant/plentiful' and 田 means 'field/farmland'. The founder Kiichiro Toyoda changed the company name to Toyota as it sounded better.

Character-by-character pronunciation

Fēng
tián

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

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