The word 嗓子 is formed by combining two characters: 嗓, which pictorially represents the throat or voice through its component 口 (mouth) and the associated element 桑 (mulberry, historically used to suggest a coarse or textured quality, perhaps evoking the vocal cords or sound), and 子, a very common suffix that often nominalizes a word, turning the abstract concept into a concrete, everyday noun for "throat" or "voice". Together, they create a single term that conceptually points to the physical organ and its function.