The Chinese word 侍者 (shìzhě), meaning "attendant", "waiter", or "servant", is a classical compound formed by combining two meaningful characters: 侍 (shì), which means "to serve", "to attend to", or "to wait upon", and 者 (zhě), a nominalizing suffix that means "one who" or "the person that". Therefore, the term is constructed through straightforward semantic composition, where "侍" provides the core action of serving and "者" transforms it into an agent noun, literally creating "the one who serves". This follows a common and productive pattern in Chinese word formation for denoting professions or roles.