serve as labor". The name was also chosen because it represented a "well-known local street", MacDonnell Road (), with meaning 'Road', in Hong Kong, which was the first Chinese speaking territory where a McDonald's restaurant opened (in 1975). BMW as / Bǎomǎ, meaning "prize horse", sounding like its colloquial name "Beamer". Pizza Hut as / Bìshèngkè, "the guest must win". Bing as / Bìyìng, "must respond". Wikipedia is / Wéijī Bǎikē, meaning "Wiki Encyclopedia". The Chinese transcription of "Wiki" is composed of two characters: /, whose ancient sense refers to "ropes or webs connecting objects", and alludes to the Internet; and , meaning "foundations". The name can be interpreted as "the encyclopedia that connects the fundamental knowledge of humanity". Regional differences Mainland China, Singapore and Malaysia use simplified characters in its transcriptions, while Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau typically use traditional characters. In addition, transcriptions used in Chinese speaking regions sometimes differ from official transcriptions. For example "Hawaii" ( Hāwǎyī) is rendered as Xiàwēiyí in most Chinese-language media while New Zealand ( Xīnxīlán) is transcribed by Taiwan media as Niǔxīlán. In general, mainland China tends to preserve the pronunciation of names deriving from their language of origin while Taiwan often transcribes them according to the English pronunciation. For example, the Russian President Vladimir Putin is known as Pǔjīng in mainland sources after the native Russian pronunciation , whereas the name is rendered as Pǔdīng in Taiwan. Hong Kong and Macau, meanwhile, formerly transcribed names using their Cantonese pronunciations, although that practice has become less common following their handovers. Chinese transcriptions are now frequently cribbed from the mainland, even if the local pronunciation then becomes more remote from the original. For example, Cantonese sources copy the mainland transcription , despite its local pronunciation being the rather infelicitous Póugīng. In 2016, a controversy arose in Hong Kong when protestors petitioned Nintendo to reverse its decision of converting the Hong Kong names of over 100 Pokémon into the mainland Chinese equivalents of their names, including its most famous character Pikachu. In the first half of 2016, Nintendo announced that it would change Pikachu's name from its original Cantonese name, Béikāchīu , to Pèikāyāu in favor of fitting the Mandarin pronunciation, Píkǎqiū , in the most recent series of Pokémon games, Pokémon Sun and Moon, in order to standardize marketing in the Greater China region. Even though Malaysia had their official transliteration names for