The Chinese term "克劳斯" is a direct phonetic transliteration, formed by selecting characters whose pronunciations closely approximate the sounds of the foreign name "Klaus" or "Claus". It follows the standard convention for rendering non-Chinese personal names into Mandarin, where each syllable ("ke", "lao", "si") is represented by a character chosen primarily for its sound, not its meaning, resulting in a neutral, sound-based representation of the original name.