The Chinese word **书写 (shūxiě)**, meaning "to write," is a **compound verb** formed through **semantic combination**, where two independent characters with related meanings are joined to create a more specific or reinforced concept. The first character, **书 (shū)**, originally meant "to write" or, by extension, "book" (the thing produced by writing). The second character, **写 (xiě)**, means "to depict" or "to pour out," and evolved to mean "to write" as in putting brush to paper. When combined, they form a **verb-object structure** where 书 acts as the object ("written words") and 写 as the action ("to put down"), collectively expressing the complete act of producing written characters or text, thus emphasizing the action and its result.