The Chinese word 玛奇朵 is formed by phonetically transliterating the Italian word "macchiato", with each character selected to approximate the sound of the original: 玛 (mǎ) for "ma", 奇 (qí) for "chi", and 朵 (duǒ) for "do", resulting in a term that denotes the coffee beverage without conveying meaning through the characters' individual semantics.