The word 好奇 is formed by combining two characters: 好 (hǎo), which pictographically represents a woman with a child, conveying a sense of natural fondness or intrinsic inclination; and 奇 (qí), which depicts something "big" (大) and "able to be" (可), together suggesting the unusual, remarkable, or strange. Their union creates a conceptual blend where an inherent liking or tendency (好) is directed toward the novel and extraordinary (奇), semantically forming the abstract idea of "curiosity", a natural desire to explore and understand what is unfamiliar.