The Chinese word **慕尼黑 (Mùníhēi)** is a direct phonetic transliteration of the German city name "München," formed by selecting Chinese characters whose pronunciations closely approximate the original foreign sounds—"慕" (mù) for "Mün," "尼" (ní) for "nich," and "黑" (hēi) for the concluding sound—with the characters chosen solely for their sound and not for their literal meanings (which individually suggest "admire," "Buddhist nun," and "black," respectively). This is a standard method in Chinese for rendering foreign proper nouns, resulting in a term that is phonetically recognizable to Chinese speakers while being semantically unrelated to the original place.