The word 往往 is formed through the morphological process of reduplication, where the single character 往 (wǎng), which originally conveys the concrete idea of "going" or "toward", is duplicated. This repetition transforms and abstracts its meaning, creating a new adverb that no longer describes physical movement but instead expresses a recurring, habitual, or generalized pattern of events, effectively meaning "often" or "more often than not". The formation leverages a common Chinese linguistic strategy where repeating a character amplifies and shifts its conceptual scope from a specific action to a frequentative or customary condition.