The Chinese word 穆巴拉克 is formed through phonetic transliteration, where each character corresponds to a syllable in the foreign name "Mubarak": 穆 (mù) for "Mu", 巴 (bā) for "ba", 拉 (lā) for "ra", and 克 (kè) for "k", with the characters chosen solely for their sound approximation to the original.