The Chinese word 恶人 (èrén) is a compound noun formed by combining two individual characters: 恶 (è), meaning "evil", "wicked", or "bad", and 人 (rén), meaning "person" or "human being". This follows a common and highly productive morphological pattern in Chinese where two meaningful characters (morphemes) are joined in a modifier-head structure, here, 恶 modifies 人, to create a new, specific term. The resulting word literally translates to "evil person" and functions as a single lexical unit denoting a villain, a malicious individual, or a wrongdoer, demonstrating how Chinese efficiently builds vocabulary through semantic compounding.