Which linguistic phenomenon led Coca-Cola to change their brand name in China after their original translation was discovered to mean 'bite the wax tadpole'?

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Phonetic adaptation - they needed a name that sounded similar but had positive meaning in Chinese characters ('happiness in the mouth')
Semantic translation error - they had directly translated the English meaning instead of adapting it culturally
Syntactic restructuring - the word order in Chinese created an unintended meaning
Homophonic confusion - the brand name was identical to a Chinese word with negative connotations