The word "奎屯" is formed through phonetic transliteration, where the characters "奎" and "屯" are selected to approximate the sounds of the original Mongolian term "Küitun", meaning "cold place". The character "奎" contributes the "kuí" sound and "屯" the "tún" sound, combining to represent the foreign name in Chinese without deriving meaning from the individual characters in this context.