鸿 hong2 can mean wild goose or writing/correspondence
蒙 meng2/meng1 can mean a few things, to cover (2), to fool (1), stupid (2).
So maybe to cover all aspects of correspondence? I'm not sure if this sense of cover applies here though. That would at least make some sense. To fool would be wrong according to the indicated pinyin tones on the wikipedia page.
Huawei has filed plenty of other trademarks using names from ancient Chinese texts.
> "Ah," said Big Concealment, "you are too far gone! Up, up, stir yourself and be off!" Alok Ranjan was also involved as prime lead.
Where is this Alok Ranjan coming from??!!
Anyway, I don't know why Huawei used this name but I guess it refers to the beginning of the world from a primordial form, which an OS kind of is. Or maybe it refers to Daoist/Zhuangzi literatures on how the world should be governed, which also relates to an OS.
You have
盘古 sort of originator of earth character
春秋 warring period in China
补天 rebuilding the skies
Translated as..
> a metaphor for the "primordial world, primeval chaos" in Chinese creation myths.
> "Mists-of-Chaos", "Vast Obscurity", "Big Concealment", "Vital Principle", "Natural Energy" and "Big Goose Dummy"
I can't quite escape the pun, however. And puns are pretty prevalent in Chinese. Someone will have OKed it.
The tones are at least slightly different 鸿蒙 2/2 and 红梦 2/4, but I also think they might have done it for that reason.
As others have pointed out, it comes from Chinese/Taoist mythology and refers to a character. It's like if we chose a name from a character in Roman or Greek mythology.
As many such Chinese names it is not that easy to translate, and like in Roman/Greek mythology the idea is linked to what the character did.
'Hong' as in 'red'
and
'Meng' as in 'dream'
?
That's quite a name!