The Chinese word "大家庭" (dà jiātíng) is a compound noun formed through straightforward semantic combination: the adjective "大" (dà), meaning "big" or "large", modifies the core noun "家庭" (jiātíng), which means "family" or "household". Together, they create a new term that literally translates to "big family", but is used both literally to describe a multi-generational or extended family unit and figuratively to refer to any large, cohesive group that feels like a family, such as a company, school, or community. Its formation follows the common Chinese syntactic pattern of an attributive (the adjective) preceding the head word (the noun) to specify its quality.