The word 地址 is formed through the logical combination of two meaningful characters: 地 (dì), meaning "earth", "ground", or "land", and 址 (zhǐ), meaning "foundation", "site", or "location". Together, they conceptually build upon each other, moving from the general concept of a piece of land (地) to the specific, established point or foundation upon which something is built (址), thus arriving at the composite meaning of a specific, fixed "address" or "physical location".