The Chinese word **比绍 (Bǐshào)** is a **phonetic transcription** formed through the process of transliteration, specifically to represent the sound of the foreign place name **Bissau** (the capital of Guinea-Bissau). It is created by selecting two existing Chinese characters, "比" (bǐ) and "绍" (shào), whose combined pronunciation closely approximates the syllables of the foreign word, with no inherent semantic meaning related to the location itself. This is a standard method in Chinese for naming foreign geographical entities.