The Chinese word 富兰克林 (Fùlánkèlín) is a phonetic transliteration formed to approximate the sounds of the English name "Franklin." It is created by selecting existing Chinese characters that, when pronounced sequentially, mimic the original name's syllables—"Fu" for "Fran," "lan" for "lin," and "ke lin" for the concluding "klin" sound. The individual characters, which carry meanings like "wealth" (富), "orchid" (兰), "overcome" (克), and "forest" (林), are chosen purely for their sound in this context and do not convey the name's semantic meaning, following the standard Chinese practice for rendering foreign proper nouns.