穆斯林
Mù sī lín · HSK 7
Muslim
🕌 Phonetic loanword: Mu-si-lin echoes the English word Mus-lim
穆斯林 is a sound-based transliteration, not a meaning compound: each character supplies a syllable (Mu-si-lin) to approximate Mus-lim. The hanzi were chosen for sound, so read them phonetically rather than parsing their separate meanings.