The Chinese word 检察院 (jiǎncháyuàn), meaning "procuratorate" or "prosecutor's office", is a compound noun formed through semantic combination: the morpheme 检 (jiǎn) means "to inspect" or "examine", 察 (chá) means "to investigate" or "scrutinize", together forming 检察 (jiǎnchá), which signifies "prosecutorial" or "legal supervision", and this is combined with 院 (yuàn), meaning "institution" or "court", to create a term that denotes the state institution responsible for legal prosecution and judicial supervision.