The Chinese word 当众 (dāngzhòng), meaning "publicly" or "in front of everyone," is formed through the logical combination of its two constituent characters: 当 (dāng), which carries the sense of "facing," "in the presence of," or "at the moment of," and 众 (zhòng), which means "crowd" or "the multitude." Together, they create a prepositional/adverbial concept that literally translates to "facing the crowd," succinctly conveying the idea of an action performed openly before an audience or in a public setting. This formation exemplifies a common Chinese word-construction method where a spatial or situational marker (当) is paired with a noun to define a specific circumstance.