The Chinese word "盎格鲁" is formed via phonetic transliteration of the English term "Anglo", where each character is chosen solely for its sound approximation: "盎" (àng) for "an", "格" (gé) for "glo", and "鲁" (lǔ) for the concluding "o" or "u" sound, with the characters' literal meanings being incidental to this purpose.