The Chinese word **婚宴 (hūnyàn)** is a compound noun formed by combining two meaningful characters: **婚 (hūn)**, meaning "marriage" or "wedding," and **宴 (yàn)**, meaning "feast" or "banquet." This follows the common structural pattern in Mandarin where two independent, related morphemes are joined to create a new, specific term—in this case, the complete concept of a "wedding banquet" or "marriage feast." The formation is straightforwardly semantic, where the sum of the parts directly denotes the whole event, exemplifying how Chinese efficiently constructs precise vocabulary through compounding.