The Chinese word 卡萨诺瓦 (Kǎ sà nuò wǎ) is a direct phonetic transliteration of the foreign name "Casanova," formed through a common process for importing foreign terms where individual Chinese characters are selected not for their meaning, but for their sound to approximate the original pronunciation. Each character represents a syllable: 卡 (kǎ) for "Ca," 萨 (sà) for "sa," 诺 (nuò) for "no," and 瓦 (wǎ) for "va," resulting in a word that is understood solely as a proper name carrying the cultural connotations of its referent, the historical figure synonymous with seduction.