The Chinese word 孕妇 (yùnfù), meaning "pregnant woman", is a straightforward compound formed by combining two meaningful characters: 孕 (yùn), which means "pregnant" or "pregnancy", and 妇 (fù), which means "woman" or "wife". The structure is a classic modifier-modified relationship, where the first character 孕 describes the state or condition of the second character 妇. Therefore, it is logically parsed as "pregnancy woman", or more naturally, "woman who is pregnant". This formation is analogous to common English compounds like "seafood" (sea + food) and follows a highly productive pattern in Mandarin for creating precise nouns.