The Chinese word 新兵 (xīnbīng), meaning "new soldier" or "recruit," is a compound noun formed through semantic combination. It consists of the character 新 (xīn), which means "new," acting as a modifier, and the character 兵 (bīng), which means "soldier" or "military personnel," serving as the core noun. This follows a common grammatical structure in Mandarin known as a "modifier-head" or "attributive-head" compound, where the first element describes or qualifies the second. Thus, the literal and logical formation is "new" + "soldier" = "new soldier."