The word 罪恶 (zuì'è), meaning "evil" or "sin", is formed through a conceptual combination where the first character 罪, meaning "crime" or "guilt", denotes the concrete act or offense, and the second character 恶, meaning "wickedness" or "vice", describes the inherent immoral nature behind it. Together, they create a single, intensified concept that merges the objective wrongdoing with its subjective moral corruption, producing a term for profound, condemnable evil.