The word "哈利路亚" (Hālìlùyà) is a direct phonetic transliteration of the English exclamation "Hallelujah," which itself originates from the Hebrew liturgical phrase meaning "praise the Lord." In its formation, Chinese characters were carefully selected not for their semantic meaning but primarily for their phonetic approximation to the syllables of the source word; for instance, "哈" (hā) mimics the "ha" sound, "利" (lì) for "le," "路" (lù) for "lu," and "亚" (yà) for "jah." This common method of creating loanwords allows the term to be integrated into Chinese while preserving the original pronunciation, and it has been culturally adopted through its use in Christian contexts, such as in translated hymns and religious texts.