撕
碎
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The Chinese word 撕碎 (sīsuì, "to tear into pieces") is formed through a common morphological process in Mandarin known as a verb-resultative compound. It combines the action verb 撕 (sī, "to tear") with the resultative complement 碎 (suì, "broken into fragments"). This structure explicitly denotes that the action (tearing) leads directly to a specific resultant state (being in pieces), creating a single, efficient lexical unit that conveys both the process and its outcome.