The Chinese word **享乐** (xiǎnglè), meaning "to seek pleasure" or "to indulge in enjoyment," is a **compound word** formed through the combination of two independent characters: **享** (xiǎng), which means "to enjoy" or "to receive (benefits)," and **乐** (lè), which means "happiness" or "pleasure." In this **verb-object (or verb-complement) morphological structure**, the first character **享** acts as the verb ("to enjoy"), and the second character **乐** serves as its nominal object ("pleasure"), so the compound literally and conceptually reads as "to enjoy happiness," effectively creating a single lexical unit that conveys the act of pleasure-seeking.