The word 打猎 is formed by combining two characters: 打, which fundamentally means "to strike" or "to hit", and 猎, which means "hunting" or "wild game". It is not a literal sum of its parts ("strike-game"), but rather a conceptual fusion where the action of 打 is metaphorically extended to mean "to engage in" or "to carry out". Thus, the compound visually and semantically paints the active, engaged process of pursuing and capturing wild animals, creating the single, unified concept of "to hunt".