The Chinese word "肖伯纳" is formed through phonetic transliteration, where each character is selected solely to approximate the sounds of the foreign name "Bernard Shaw": "肖" (Xiào) corresponds to "Shaw", "伯" (Bó) to "Ber", and "纳" (Nà) to "nard", resulting in a sequence that mimics the pronunciation without deriving meaning from the characters.