The Chinese word 赌徒 (dǔtú), meaning "gambler", is a compound noun formed through a straightforward morphological process common in Mandarin. It combines the morpheme 赌 (dǔ), which means "to gamble" or "gambling", with the suffix 徒 (tú), a nominalizing agent suffix that denotes a person who engages in a particular, often habitual, activity or follows a certain practice. Therefore, the word is constructed semantically as "gambling-person", where the first character provides the action or domain, and the second character specifies the human agent associated with that action, creating an efficient and semantically transparent term.