The Chinese word **漏水** (lòushuǐ) is a verb-object compound formed by combining the character **漏** (lòu), meaning "to leak" or "to seep," with the character **水** (shuǐ), meaning "water." Together, they create a single lexical unit where the first character denotes the action and the second specifies the object of that action, literally translating to "to leak water" and used to describe the situation where water escapes from a container, pipe, or structure.