The character "女儿" (nǚ'ér) is formed through a straightforward semantic combination of two pictographic components. The first part, "女", is a stylized pictograph representing a woman in a kneeling or seated posture, denoting the concept of "female". It is combined with "儿", a simplified form of the traditional character "兒", which is itself a pictograph of a child, specifically one with an open fontanelle on its head. By placing these two ideographs together, the compound visually and conceptually fuses the ideas of "female" and "child" to directly signify "daughter".