The word 报社 is formed by combining two meaningful characters: 报 (bào), meaning "newspaper" or "report", and 社 (shè), meaning "society" or "organization". Together, they create a new concept through direct association, the character for the product (newspaper) is joined with the character for the producing entity (organization), to literally mean "newspaper organization", which naturally translates to "newspaper office" or "newspaper agency". This is a straightforward compound where the relationship is one of function or purpose, forming a single, unified idea.