The word 湖边 is formed by directly combining two independent pictographic concepts: 湖 (hú), which visually and notionally represents a "lake", and 边 (biān), which represents a "border", "edge", or "margin". The formation is not grammatical but rather a conceptual juxtaposition, where the image of the lake is immediately followed by the idea of its perimeter, creating a single, compound mental picture of "lakeside". It is a spatial and pictorial fusion, placing one idea next to the other to define a specific location.