The word 拿走 is formed through the direct combination of two independent characters, each contributing its core meaning to create a new, composite idea. The first character, 拿 (ná), pictorially represents a hand clasping something, meaning "to take" or "to hold". It is placed before the second character, 走 (zǒu), which depicts a person in motion, meaning "to walk" or "to go". Their union in this fixed order visually and conceptually sequences the actions: first the taking, then the departing, resulting in the combined sense of "to take away".