The word 英文 is formed by combining two individual characters, each contributing its core meaning: 英 (yīng), which here acts as a shorthand for "England" or "English", and 文 (wén), which means "language", "writing", or "culture". When joined, they create a compound that literally means "English language", specifically referring to the written form or the body of the language itself. It is a direct and logical semantic construction where the first element specifies the origin or type and the second element specifies the category.