The Chinese word 打嗝 (dǎgé), meaning "to hiccup", is a verb-object compound formed through semantic combination. The first character, 打 (dǎ), is a highly versatile verb often meaning "to strike" or "to do", and here it functions as a generic action marker meaning "to perform". The second character, 嗝 (gé), is an onomatopoeic morpheme that mimics the sound of a hiccup or belch. Together, they create a logical syntactic structure where the action ("打") is applied to the resulting sound/condition ("嗝"), effectively meaning "to do a hiccup", which is the standard lexicalized term for the involuntary reflex.