加德士

jiādéshì

popculture

Meanings

1 Caltex (petroleum brand, originally a Texaco/Chevron joint venture)

Characters

(transliteration) ca-

(transliteration) -de-

(transliteration) -tex

Examples

他在加德士加油站加油。

Tā zài Jiādéshì jiāyóuzhàn jiāyóu.

He fills up at a Caltex gas station.

加德士是一家全球知名的石油公司。

Jiādéshì shì yī jiā quánqiú zhīmíng de shíyóu gōngsī.

Caltex is a globally recognized petroleum company.

Tips

culture

Founded 1936 as the California Texas Oil Company — hence the name 'Cal-Tex'. Now wholly owned by Chevron. The Chinese name is a phonetic transliteration with no semantic meaning.

Stroke Order

加 jiā

德 dé

士 shì