The Chinese word 消防队 (xiāofángduì, "fire brigade") is a compound term formed through logical semantic combination: 消 (xiāo) means "to eliminate" or "disperse", 防 (fáng) means "to prevent" or "guard against", together forming 消防 (xiāofáng), which conceptually addresses both prevention and elimination of disasters, specifically fire. The suffix 队 (duì) means "team" or "squad", so the entire term literally translates to "disaster-prevention-and-elimination team", explicitly denoting an organized unit responsible for firefighting and related emergency response.