The word 做饭 is formed by combining the character 做, meaning "to do" or "to make", with the character 饭, meaning "cooked rice" or, more broadly, "a meal". It is a conceptual compound where the action of "making" is directly applied to the object "a meal". While the literal components suggest "make rice", the combination naturally extends in meaning to represent the entire process of preparing and cooking food, encompassing all the activities from preparation to the final act of cooking required to produce a complete meal. Thus, the formation captures a complete, everyday activity through the direct union of a verb and its most essential object.