The Chinese word 釜山 (Fǔshān) is a phonetic and semantic compound formed to represent the name of the South Korean city "Busan." The first character, 釜 (fǔ), meaning "cauldron" or "pot," was chosen primarily for its phonetic approximation of the Korean sound "Bu." The second character, 山 (shān), meaning "mountain," is a direct semantic translation of the Korean element "san" (산), which also means mountain, thus creating a meaningful hybrid that describes a "cauldron-shaped mountain" while accurately transcribing the foreign place name.