The Chinese word "安东尼" is formed through a process of phonetic translation, specifically designed to transcribe foreign names into Chinese characters. It is a direct sound-based approximation of the name "Anthony", where each character is chosen solely for how closely its pronunciation matches a syllable of the original name: "安" (Ān) for "An", "东" (dōng) for "tho", and "尼" (ní) for "ny". The intrinsic meanings of the individual characters (e.g., 安 meaning "peace", 东 meaning "east", 尼 meaning "nun") are entirely incidental and play no role in the word's formation, which is purely an exercise in creating an aural equivalent using the available sounds of the Chinese language.