The Chinese word 洗碗机 (xǐ wǎn jī), meaning "dishwasher," is a logically constructed compound term formed by combining three characters: 洗 (xǐ, "to wash"), 碗 (wǎn, "bowl" or, by extension, "dishes"), and 机 (jī, "machine"). It follows a common and highly productive grammatical structure in Modern Chinese known as a verb-object compound plus a suffix, where the first two characters form a verb-object phrase ("wash dishes") that describes the machine's primary function, and the final character 机 acts as a nominalizing suffix that categorizes the object as a mechanical device. Thus, the term transparently and efficiently denotes "a machine for washing dishes."