The word "婕妤" is formed as a disyllabic compound where each character is a phonosemantic construct: "婕" combines the radical "女" (female) for semantic category with the phonetic component "捷" (jié) to approximate pronunciation, while "妤" similarly uses "女" as the radical and "予" (yú) as the phonetic; together, they function as a single lexical unit denoting a specific historical title for an imperial consort.