The Chinese word **境内** (jìngnèi) is a compound term formed by combining the character **境** (jìng), meaning "border," "boundary," or "territory," with the character **内** (nèi), meaning "inside" or "within." The formation follows a standard grammatical structure in Chinese where a location or noun (**境**) is modified by a positional or directional word (**内**) to create a new spatial concept. Thus, the literal and combined meaning is "within the borders" or "inside the territory," and it is commonly used to refer to matters or areas inside a specific country, region, or administrative domain.