The Chinese word "橘子" for "orange" is formed by combining two characters: "橘" is a pictophonetic character composed of the semantic radical "木" (wood) on the left, indicating it is tree-related, and the phonetic component "矞" on the right, which historically guided its pronunciation; the character "子", originally a pictograph depicting a child, is appended as a suffix to specify the fruit, reflecting a common morphological pattern in Chinese where such endings help form discrete nouns from base terms.