The Chinese word **罗嗦** (luōsuo) is formed through a process of **reduplication**, where the base character **罗** (luó), which originally meant "a net for catching birds" and by extension came to signify something "overly detailed" or "cluttered," is doubled and phonetically altered with a tonal shift to create a disyllabic adjective. This reduplication intensifies the meaning, transforming it from a concept of entanglement into a vivid descriptor for speech that is **long-winded, unnecessarily repetitive, or annoyingly trivial**. The pairing not only strengthens the semantic content but also adheres to a common pattern in Chinese where reduplication creates expressive, often onomatopoeic or mimetic, words, with the resulting term "啰嗦" (the more common variant using 啰) conveying a sense of nagging, tedious verbosity.