The Chinese word 预想 (yùxiǎng) is a compound formed by combining two distinct characters: 预 (yù), which means "in advance" or "beforehand", and 想 (xiǎng), which means "to think" or "to imagine". Together, they create a verb or noun meaning "to anticipate", "to foresee", or "a preconception", where the first character 预 modifies the action of the second character 想 to specify that the thinking occurs prior to an event, thus semantically indicating the act of thinking or imagining something before it happens.