Bare
花冠 (huāguān) is the botanical term 'corolla' (the inner ring of petals in a flower) — a direct semantic translation of the Latin corolla, 'little crown'. The
丰田 prefix marks the Toyota sedan. Toyota used
花冠 as the Chinese name from the sedan's debut until about 2007, when the E140 generation was renamed
卡罗拉 (Kǎluólā, a new phonetic transliteration); both names still circulate among drivers for the older generations.
