The word 女神 is formed through a direct, conceptual combination of two pictographic and ideographic characters. The first character, 女, is a stylized pictograph historically derived from the silhouette of a person in a kneeling posture, representing the core concept of "woman" or "female". It is paired with 神, a character composed of a radical suggesting an altar or the spiritual, combined with elements indicating extension or mystery, to convey the idea of "spirit", "deity", or "divinity". Their union does not follow a syntactic rule but rather a semantic fusion, where the essence of the first (the feminine human) is elevated and transformed by the second (the divine), creating a single, integrated concept of a "goddess" or a revered, archetypal feminine ideal.