Dragonfly translation If you were using ‘dragonfly’ in a Mandarin brandname (traditional products for hair &amp; skin), would you use 蜻蜓 or only 蜻?
In general, shorter 2-syllable brand names are better and apparently 蜻 can be used for 蜻蜓:
https://qr.ae/pN9BFQ
For example, 'Dragonfly Valley' could be either 蜻蜓谷 or 蜻谷:
https://fanyi.baidu.com/#zh/en/蜻蜓谷
https://fanyi.baidu.com/#zh/en/蜻谷
Which would be better, more natural sounding in a brand name?
Well...
Your reference (https://qr.ae/pN9BFQ) is good, but I rarely hear people use &quot;蜻&quot; instead of &quot;蜻蜓&quot;. People just don't say like that. When you split a Chinese word, it usually turn into many individual words, but sometimes it's meanless. When people look at a word like &quot;蜻&quot;, they won't think about the dragonfly, they will feel like it's a bug because the &quot;虫&quot; part. &quot;蜻&quot; itself may have some legendary magic feelings. If you want to convey that kind of feeling to you brand, you can do it.