The word 战胜 is formed by combining two characters: 战 (zhàn), meaning "to fight" or "war", and 胜 (shèng), meaning "to win" or "victory". It is constructed conceptually by placing the action first and its successful outcome second, creating a cause-and-effect sequence within a single unit. This merges the entire process of engaging in a struggle and achieving triumph into one condensed idea, a typical method in Chinese for forming verbs that describe accomplishing something through a specific action.