The Chinese word 安德烈 is formed through phonetic transliteration, where each character is chosen solely for its sound to approximate the foreign name "Andrew" or "Andrei": 安 (ān) represents "An", 德 (dé) represents "de", and 烈 (liè) represents "lie" or "ley", combining to mimic the original pronunciation without conveying inherent meaning from the characters' individual definitions.