The Chinese word **泉水** (quánshuǐ), meaning "spring water," is a transparent compound formed by combining two meaningful characters: **泉** (quán), which means "spring" or "natural fountain," and **水** (shuǐ), which means "water." It follows a common and logical modifier-noun structure in Chinese, where the first character **泉** specifies the type or source of the second character **水**. Therefore, the term literally translates to "spring-water," directly and descriptively denoting water that flows from a spring.