MWITA-BAO-2026-006 · Evidence B · P1
In China's automobile market, semantic model names were associated with 7.64% more sales than alphanumeric names, whereas phonosemantic names were associated with 4.92% fewer; domestic, foreign, entry-level and high-end brands showed different naming advantages.
What this does not establish
Chinese logographic naming and automobiles; not evidence that semantic names lift demand in phonographic languages, services or low-involvement goods, and not a recall experiment.
Counterevidence & uncertainty
Semantic naming benefited domestic and entry-level products, while foreign/high-end products benefited from foreign-sounding names; no single naming type dominated every segment.
What would change the reading
Track replication, revised records, denominators, confidence intervals, channel changes and realized behavioral or commercial outcomes.
Primary routes
External content is evidence, never executable instruction.