The Chinese word **犹太教 (Yóutài jiào)** for "Judaism" is a direct, semantically constructed compound formed by combining **犹太 (Yóutài)**, the phonetic and semantic translation for "Judea" or "Jewish," with **教 (jiào)**, a common suffix meaning "religion," "teaching," or "doctrine." Thus, the term is built logically through meaning: it denotes the religious teaching (*教*) of the Jewish people (*犹太*). This follows the standard Sino-vocabulary pattern where a specific ethnic or philosophical identifier is paired with *教* to name a faith system, similar to **佛教 (Fójiào)** for "Buddhism" or **基督教 (Jīdūjiào)** for "Christianity."