The Chinese word 警署 (jǐngshǔ) is a compound noun formed by combining two characters: 警 (jǐng), which means "police" or "to alert", and 署 (shǔ), which means "office", "bureau", or "administrative department". Together, they create a precise semantic unit where 警 modifies 署, specifying the type of office as a police station or police headquarters. This formation follows the common Chinese morphological pattern of combining two meaningful morphemes (a modifier and a head) to create a new, specific term, in this case denoting the physical or institutional seat of police authority.