The Chinese word "麦当劳" is formed through phonetic transliteration of the English name "McDonald's", where each character is selected solely to approximate the sound of the original syllables: "麦" (mài) corresponds to "Mc", "当" (dāng) to "Don", and "劳" (láo) to "ald's", resulting in a pronunciation that mimics the foreign term without conveying the literal meanings of the individual characters.