The Chinese word 藐视 (miǎoshì), meaning "to despise" or "to scorn", is a compound verb formed through the combination of two meaningful characters: 藐, which carries the core meaning of "small", "petty", or "to belittle", and 视, which means "to look at" or "to regard". Together, they create a vivid semantic blend where 藐 modifies the action of 视, resulting in the literal sense of "to look at (someone) as small or insignificant". This formation follows a common grammatical pattern in Chinese where an adverb-like element (藐) precedes and describes a verb (视), producing a term that conceptually means "to regard with contempt", effectively lexicalizing the act of disdainful looking down upon someone or something.