The Chinese word **十字路口** (shí zì lù kǒu), meaning "crossroads" or "intersection," is a compound formed through descriptive logic: **十字** (shí zì) means "cross" (literally "ten-character," as the character for ten 十 resembles a cross), and **路口** (lù kǒu) means "road mouth" or "junction." Thus, the term literally translates to "cross-shaped road junction," vividly picturing the point where two roads meet and cross each other in the shape of the character 十.