The word 绕道 (rào dào) is formed through a logical semantic combination of two Chinese characters: 绕 (rào), which means "to bypass", "to detour", or "to go around", and 道 (dào), which means "road" or "path". Together in a verb-object construction, they create the compound verb meaning "to make a detour" or "to take a roundabout route". The formation is highly intuitive, as the action of "going around" (绕) is directly applied to the object "the road" (道), resulting in a clear and practical term for describing the act of avoiding the direct or main path.