The Chinese medical term "休克" (xiūkè) for "shock" is a phonosemantic matching loanword, primarily formed through the phonetic borrowing of the English word "shock". The characters were chosen not only for their sound approximation ("xiū" for "sho" and "kè" for "ck") but also for their suggestive meanings: "休" implies cessation or rest, and "克" conveys overcoming or restraint, together conceptually describing a state where vital functions are severely depressed or overcome. This method of translation, common in modern Chinese, effectively creates a new compound that is both phonetically faithful and semantically evocative of the condition's life-threatening nature.