The Chinese word **花瓣** (*huā bàn*), meaning "petal," is a perfectly logical compound formed by combining two meaningful characters: **花** (*huā*), meaning "flower," and **瓣** (*bàn*), meaning "segment," "section," or "clove." It follows the common structural pattern in Mandarin of **Modifier + Head Noun**, where the first character **花** specifies the category or type, and the second character **瓣** denotes the specific object or part. Thus, the compound literally translates to "flower segment," directly and transparently describing a petal as a segmented part of a flower.