The Chinese word "乔治亚" (Qiáozhìyà) is a phonetically-based transliteration formed to approximate the sounds of the English name "Georgia." Each character is chosen primarily for its pronunciation: "乔" (Qiáo) matches the initial "Geor-" sound, "治" (zhì) corresponds to the soft "-gia" middle, and "亚" (yà) captures the final "-a" syllable. While the characters individually carry meanings (e.g., 乔 can mean "tall," 治 "to rule/govern," and 亚 "second/Asia"), their selection here is driven by sonic similarity rather than semantic meaning, following the common Chinese convention for rendering foreign proper nouns.