The Chinese word **人品** (rénpǐn) is a compound formed by combining two independent characters: **人** (rén), meaning "person," and **品** (pǐn), whose core meanings include "article," "grade," "class," and, crucially, "character" or "moral quality." In this specific combination, the meaning is not merely additive but synthetic, where **品** takes on its abstract sense of "innate character" or "ethical standing." Thus, the compound semantically fuses to mean "the character of a person," specifically referring to one's moral integrity, virtue, and personal conduct, effectively creating a single lexical unit for the concept of "moral character" or "personal ethics."