The Chinese word 木板 (mùbǎn), meaning "wooden plank" or "board", is a straightforward compound noun formed by combining two meaningful characters: 木 (mù), which means "wood" or "tree", and 板 (bǎn), which means "board", "plank", or "flat piece". The first character 木 acts as a modifier or classifier, specifying the material (wood), while the second character 板 serves as the core noun, indicating the object's form (a flat, rigid sheet). This structure follows the common Chinese grammatical pattern of Modifier + Head Noun, where the semantic relationship is directly compositional, the "board made of wood".