The Chinese word 公布 is formed by combining the character 公, which embodies the concept of openness, fairness, or the public realm, with 布, which inherently conveys the action of spreading, announcing, or laying out information. When merged, these characters conceptually integrate to express the idea of disclosing or proclaiming something openly to the community, thereby creating the meaning of "to make public" or "to announce publicly", where the public nature of the action is emphasized by the first component modifying the disseminating intent of the second.