The word 庭审 is formed through a direct conceptual combination of its two component characters: 庭 (tíng), meaning "court" or "courtroom", which establishes the physical and institutional setting, and 审 (shěn), meaning "to hear", "to try", or "to examine", which denotes the core action of conducting a judicial investigation. The compound thus naturally emerges from merging the place where justice is administered with the primary activity that occurs there, resulting in the unified meaning of "court trial" or "court hearing".