The Chinese word 爵士舞 (juéshì wǔ) for "jazz dance" is a formed through a direct semantic-phonetic translation from English. The first two characters, 爵士 (juéshì), constitute a phonetically-based transliteration of the word "jazz", originally meaning "lord" or "knight" but repurposed here solely for its sound. The final character 舞 (wǔ) means "dance", acting as a semantic classifier that explicitly defines the category of the term. Thus, the compound follows the common Chinese word-formation strategy of combining a phonetic borrowing with an indicative morpheme to create a precise, culturally-adapted loanword.