The Chinese word 善事 (shànshì), meaning "good deeds" or "charitable acts", is a compound noun formed through semantic combination. It consists of the character 善 (shàn), which means "good", "kind", or "virtuous", functioning as a modifier, and the character 事 (shì), which means "matter", "affair", or "deed", serving as the head noun. Together, they create a classical "modifier-head" structure common in Chinese, where the first element describes the quality of the second, literally translating to "good matters/deeds". This formation is rooted in Classical Chinese and reflects a direct, logical compounding where the meaning of the whole is derived transparently from its parts.