The Chinese word 办事处 (bànshìchù), meaning "office" or "agency," is a logical compound formed by combining three meaningful characters: 办 (bàn), meaning "to handle" or "to manage"; 事 (shì), meaning "matter" or "affair"; and 处 (chù), meaning "place" or "location." Its formation follows a standard "verb-object + noun" grammatical structure where 办事 ("handle affairs") acts as a modifying phrase for 处 ("place"), thus literally and conceptually creating "a place for handling affairs," which perfectly defines its function as an administrative or business office.