The word "放下" is formed through the direct conceptual and visual combination of two elemental actions. The first character, 放, is a pictographic idea of releasing something from one's hand. It is placed before the second character, 下, which is a simple pictogram pointing downward. Together, they sequentially depict the complete, single idea of "letting go and moving downward", creating a compound ideograph where the combined visual narrative of the two characters produces the meaning "to put down".