The word 仆人 is formed through the logical combination of two meaningful characters. The first character, 仆, is itself a pictographic or ideographic character historically depicting a person with a marked head carrying a vessel, representing a servant or someone in a subservient role. The second character, 人, simply means "person". By placing them together, the meaning is explicitly compounded and clarified: a 仆-type of 人, resulting in the clear and reinforced concept of a "servant" or "attendant".