The word 瞎子 (xiāzi), meaning "blind person", is a compound word formed through a straightforward morphological process in Chinese. It combines the morpheme 瞎 (xiā), which means "blind" and is itself a phono-semantic character composed of the "eye" (目) radical and the phonetic component "害" (hài), with the extremely common nominal suffix 子 (zi), which here functions to nominalize the adjective into a person who possesses that characteristic. Thus, the literal construction is "blind" + "(person) suffix", creating a single lexical unit that refers specifically to a blind individual.