The word "浣纱" is formed by combining the character "浣", which means to wash and is constructed with the water radical (氵) alongside the component "完" primarily for phonetic indication, and the character "纱", which means gauze and is constructed with the silk radical (纟) alongside the component "少" for phonetic indication; together, they literally denote the act of washing gauze based on the semantic and phonetic elements of each character.