The name 乔纳森 (Qiáonàsēn) is a phonetic transcription into Chinese, formed through a process of transliteration where characters are selected not for their meanings but for how closely their pronunciations approximate the syllables of the original foreign name "Jonathan". Each character represents a syllable: 乔 (qiáo) for "Jo", 纳 (nà) for "na", and 森 (sēn) for "than", collectively creating a recognizable and conventionally fixed Chinese rendering of the English name.