The Chinese word 爵士乐 (juéshì yuè) for "jazz music" is a clever phonetic and semantic translation: the first two characters, 爵士 (juéshì), directly transliterate the sound of "jazz" while simultaneously carrying the meaning of "nobility" or "knight" (爵 meaning "rank of nobility" and 士 meaning "scholar" or "warrior"), which loosely evokes the genre's sophisticated and pioneering spirit, and the final character 乐 (yuè) simply means "music", categorizing the term. Thus, the formation is a hybrid that captures both the foreign sound and an evocative, culturally resonant meaning.