The Chinese word "密尔沃基" is formed through phonetic transliteration of the English city name "Milwaukee", where each character corresponds to a syllable: "密" (mì) approximates "Mil", "尔" (ěr) approximates "wau", and "沃基" (wò jī) approximates "kee". The characters are chosen solely for their sound similarity in Chinese, with their literal meanings, "dense", "you", "fertile", and "base", being incidental and not contributing to the word's semantic content as a proper noun.