The Chinese word 丑闻 (chǒuwén), meaning "scandal", is formed by directly combining two characters: 丑, which conveys "shameful" or "ugly", and 闻, which means "news" or "to hear". This construction creates a conceptual blend where the first character describes the nature of the second, effectively yielding the idea of "shameful news". It exemplifies how Chinese often forms terms by merging meaningful units to capture a specific notion, in this case, an event or information that brings disgrace, without relying on grammatical markers or complex linguistic rules.