The Chinese word **克朗** (kèlǎng) is a **phonetic loanword** formed through **transliteration**, specifically designed to approximate the sound of foreign currency names like the Scandinavian "krone" or "krona." The characters **克** (kè) and **朗** (lǎng) were chosen not for their original meanings ("to overcome" and "clear/bright," respectively), but primarily for their combined pronunciation, which mimics the foreign source word. This is a standard method in Chinese for adopting foreign terms, especially for currencies, resulting in a word that is phonetically familiar to speakers of the original language but semantically arbitrary in Chinese.