Which linguistic phenomenon was responsible for a major retail packaging disaster when Coca-Cola first translated its brand name for the Chinese market in the 1920s?

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The characters they chose phonetically sounded like 'Coca-Cola' but translated to 'bite the wax tadpole'
The characters visually resembled the logo but translated to 'unhappy mouth water'
They used traditional characters in a simplified character region, accidentally spelling 'dead lizard'
The tone markers were incorrect, changing the meaning from 'delicious drink' to 'poisonous wax'