The Chinese word **住房 (zhùfáng)**, meaning "housing" or "residential accommodation," is a compound word formed by combining two meaningful characters: **住 (zhù)**, which means "to live" or "to reside," and **房 (fáng)**, which means "house" or "building." This follows the common grammatical structure in Mandarin where a verb (**住**) modifies or is combined with a noun (**房**) to create a new noun that specifies the type of building—in this case, one used for living. The word thus literally translates to "a building for residing" and functions as a single lexical unit.