The oldest records of the term Westerners translate as "God", "Most High God", "Greatest Lord" appear to exist in the earliest documents of Chinese literature as Shàngdì (上帝, pinyin: Shàng+dì, literally "Above Emperor"). This representation may be as old as 2000 BCE. In addition to a reuse of some of the traditional titles, transliterations and new constructions became used by the Chinese for the "God" of the Abrahamic tradition, rather than for the supreme being of traditional Chinese religion and mythology.