The word 花生酱 (huāshēngjiàng) is formed by directly combining three meaningful building blocks: 花 (huā, meaning "flower"), 生 (shēng, meaning "to grow" or "raw"), which together form 花生 (huāshēng, meaning "peanut" – literally "flower-born"), and then appending 酱 (jiàng, meaning "paste" or "sauce"). It creates the meaning through a straightforward, literal description: it is the "paste" (酱) made from "peanuts" (花生).