The Chinese word **公告 (gōnggào)**, meaning "official announcement" or "public notice," is a compound formed by combining two meaningful characters: **公 (gōng)**, which conveys the concepts of "public" or "official," and **告 (gào)**, which means "to tell," "to inform," or "to announce." Their union follows a logical semantic structure where **公** modifies **告**, specifying that the type of informing is of a public or official nature. This method of word formation, where two independent morphemes are joined to create a new term with a combined meaning, is standard in Chinese and results in a precise, transparent compound readily understood as a formal public declaration.