The Chinese word "医学" (yīxué) is formed through the direct conceptual combination of two independent characters: "医" (yī), which means "medicine" or "healing", and "学" (xué), which means "study" or "knowledge". By joining them, the compound does not merely list the two ideas but synthesizes them to create a new, integrated concept meaning "the systematic study or science of healing", that is, "medicine" as an academic and professional field.