大众

Volkswagen means 'people's car' in German (Volk = people, Wagen = car). Its Chinese name 大众 (Dà zhòng) means 'the masses/general public' — a semantic translation of 'Volk'. This is one of the cleanest cross-language semantic translations in automotive branding.

Character-by-character pronunciation

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