The Chinese word **休学 (xiūxué)**, meaning "to temporarily suspend one's studies," is a **verb-object compound** formed by combining the character **休 (xiū)**, which means "to rest" or "to cease," with the character **学 (xué)**, which means "to study" or "learning." In this construction, 休 acts as the verb ("to take a break from"), and 学 acts as its direct object ("studies"), creating a single lexical unit that semantically denotes the specific action of taking an authorized leave from an educational program. This follows a highly productive word-formation pattern in Mandarin where a transitive verb and its nominal object are fused to create a new verb.