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by pimlottc 215 days ago
> It would be like coming up with a sequence of Chinese characters that sounds like an English sentence when pronounced by a Mandarin speaker. Nothing really to do with translation.

Actually this does happen for some foreign terms/loan words, like the names of other countries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_into_Chinese_cha...