The word "葡萄牙语" (Pútáoyá yǔ), meaning "Portuguese language", is formed through a combination of phonetic borrowing and semantic classification: the first three characters "葡萄牙" constitute a phonetic transcription used to approximate the sound of "Portugal", originally derived from the Latin name "Portus Cale", while the final character "语" (yǔ) is a semantic indicator meaning "language", thereby specifying that the term refers to the language spoken in that country. This structure is standard in Chinese for naming foreign languages, where a country's name is phonetically adapted and then combined with "语" to denote its tongue.