The Chinese word 私藏 (sīcáng) is a compound verb formed by combining two individual characters: 私 (sī), meaning "private" or "personal," and 藏 (cáng), meaning "to hide," "to conceal," or "to store." The formation follows a common grammatical structure in Chinese where two semantically related morphemes are joined to create a new, more specific meaning—in this case, the act of "privately hiding" or "possessing something secretly and often illicitly," such as illegal weapons or withheld evidence. The word's meaning is thus a direct synthesis of its components, where 私 modifies the nature of the action described by 藏, specifying it as a covert, personal act of concealment.