The Chinese word 出国 (chū guó), meaning "to go abroad", is a verb-object compound formed by combining the character 出 (chū), meaning "to exit" or "to go out", with the character 国 (guó), meaning "country" or "nation". This structure follows a common grammatical pattern in Chinese where an action verb is directly paired with its object, creating a concise and intuitive phrase that literally translates as "to exit the country". It functions as a single lexical unit to describe the specific act of leaving one's homeland for a foreign destination.