The Chinese term 核武器 (héwǔqì), meaning "nuclear weapon", is a logical and efficient compound formed by combining three meaningful characters: 核 (hé, "nuclear" or "core"), which specifies the energy source; 武 (wǔ, "military" or "martial"), which denotes the object's martial or warfare purpose; and 器 (qì, "device" or "instrument"), which classifies it as a tool or apparatus. It follows the standard Chinese syntactic structure of a modifier (核) modifying a head noun (武器), where 武器 itself is a compound meaning "weapon" (武 "military" + 器 "device"). Thus, the term literally and transparently translates to "nuclear-military-device", constructing its meaning through direct semantic compounding.