The word 好吃 is formed through the direct conceptual combination of two basic characters: 好 (hǎo), meaning "good" or "well", and 吃 (chī), meaning "to eat". It is not merely a descriptive phrase but a fused, idiomatic unit where the first character modifies the second in a very intuitive way, creating the single concept of "tasty" or "delicious". Visually and semantically, it simply places the idea of "good" directly in front of the action "to eat", resulting in a compound that is immediately understood as "good to eat".