The Chinese word "亚利桑那州" (Yàlìsāngnà zhōu) for the U.S. state of Arizona is formed through a standard transliteration process, where each syllable of the English name "Arizona" is approximated using Chinese characters with similar sounds ("亚-Yà" for "A", "利-lì" for "ri", "桑-sāng" for "zo", and "那-nà" for "na"), and the semantic marker "州" (zhōu), meaning "state" or "prefecture," is appended to the end to clarify the term's geographic and administrative category.