The word 好听 is formed through a direct and intuitive semantic combination of its two component characters: 好 (hǎo), meaning "good", and 听 (tīng), meaning "to hear" or "to listen". It is constructed by placing the evaluative term "good" before the sensory verb "to hear", creating a compound that conceptually fuses the action with its positive quality, essentially meaning "good-sounding" or "pleasant to hear".