The Chinese word "平等" (píngděng), meaning "equality", is formed through the semantic combination of two characters: "平", which conveys ideas of levelness, balance, and fairness, and "等", which signifies equal status, uniformity, or equivalence. Together, they create a compound where each character reinforces the other, emphasizing the concept of equal treatment or condition, often used in contexts like social justice, rights, or moral principles to denote a state of being on the same footing without hierarchy or discrimination.