The Chinese word 粉红色 (fěnhóngsè), meaning "pink", is a compound formed through semantic modification, where the morpheme 粉 (fěn), meaning "powder" or "powdery", acts as a modifier to the core color term 红色 (hóngsè), meaning "red". This structure literally translates to "powder-red color", where 粉 descriptively narrows the shade of red to a lighter, softer, and often pastel hue, similar to the English concept of "rose" or "pink" being a tint of red. This follows a common pattern in Chinese for specifying color variations, placing a descriptive element before the base color name.