The Chinese word "音符" (yīnfú), meaning "musical note," is a compound formed by combining two meaningful characters: "音" (yīn), which means "sound" or "tone," and "符" (fú), which means "symbol" or "mark." Together, they create a literal and intuitive semantic concept of a "sound symbol," perfectly capturing the function of a note in written music as a visual representation of a specific pitch and duration. This formation follows the common Chinese word-formation pattern where two independent, meaningful morphemes are combined to produce a new, compound word with a related but more specific meaning.