The Chinese word "梳芙厘" is formed solely through phonetic transliteration of the English word "soufflé", with each character chosen to approximate its sounds: 梳 (shū) for "sou", 芙 (fú) for "ff", and 厘 (lí) for "lé", resulting in a combined pronunciation that mimics the original term without conveying meaning through the characters' individual semantics.