The Chinese word "肯尼迪" is formed through a process of phonetic borrowing, specifically to transcribe the foreign name "Kennedy". It is created by selecting three pre-existing Chinese characters, 肯 (kěn), 尼 (ní), and 迪 (dí), whose pronunciations, when combined, closely approximate the sounds of the English name's syllables. The individual meanings of these characters (which can suggest "agree", "nun", and "enlighten" respectively) are entirely disregarded; they function purely as phonetic symbols. This results in a fixed, multi-character unit used solely to represent that specific foreign entity in written Chinese.