The Chinese word "苏丹" is a phonetically formed transliteration, primarily serving two distinct but related purposes: it denotes the country **Sudan** and the royal title **sultan**. In both cases, the characters were chosen purely for their sound—"苏" (*sū*) and "丹" (*dān*)—to approximate the foreign pronunciation, with no inherent semantic connection to their original meanings (which are roughly "revive" and "cinnabar/red," respectively). For the country name, it directly transliterates "Sudan," while for the title, it derives from the Arabic "sultan." This dual usage is a common phenomenon in Chinese, where context clarifies whether the term refers to the nation or the ruler.