The Chinese word 使唤 (shǐhuan) is a disyllabic compound formed by combining two semantically similar characters: 使 (shǐ), meaning "to cause; to make; to employ," and 唤 (huàn), meaning "to call; to summon." Their meanings converge to create a verb that literally implies "to call upon someone to do something," which extends to the more specific modern meanings of "to order someone about" or "to boss around." This formation follows a common pattern in Chinese where two near-synonymous morphemes are paired to create a word with a nuanced, often more colloquial or behavior-specific meaning than either character alone.