The word "维多利亚" is formed through a process of phonetic translation, specifically designed to transcribe foreign sounds into Chinese. It is built by selecting individual Chinese characters whose pronunciations, when spoken in sequence, closely approximate the sounds of the English name "Victoria". Each character, 维 (wéi), 多 (duō), 利 (lì), 亚 (yǎ), is chosen primarily for its sound, not its meaning, to mimic the syllables "Vic-to-ri-a". The characters are then combined into a fixed, multi-character unit that functions as a proper noun, representing the foreign term through this established sonic approximation.