蒙牛 (Měngniú): Mengniu

Meanings

1 Mengniu
2 China Mengniu Dairy Company — one of China's two largest dairy companies

Characters

蒙

Examples

超市里蒙牛和伊利的牛奶最多。

Chāoshì lǐ Měngniú hé Yīlì de niúnǎi zuì duō.

In the supermarket, Mengniu and Yili milk are the most common.

蒙牛的酸奶是我每天早餐必喝的。

Měngniú de suānnǎi shì wǒ měi tiān zǎocān bì hē de.

Mengniu yoghurt is what I drink every morning at breakfast.

Tips

culture

Per CC-CEDICT: 'China Mengniu Dairy Company Limited'. Founded 1999 in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia (蒙古 'Mongolia' + 牛 'cow'). Together with rival 伊利 (Yili) it dominates the Chinese dairy market. The brand was scarred by the 2008 melamine milk scandal but has since rebuilt and become an Olympic / FIFA World Cup sponsor.

memory

蒙 = Mongolia (蒙古, from the steppe grasslands), 牛 = cow → 'Mongolian cow' → dairy from the grasslands. Their tagline 来自大草原的牛奶 ('milk from the great steppe') leans on the same imagery.