The word 获奖 (huòjiǎng), meaning "to win an award", is formed through a logical and common morphological process in Chinese where two discrete characters, each with their own meaning, combine to create a new, compound word. The first character 获 (huò) means "to obtain" or "to receive", and the second character 奖 (jiǎng) means "award" or "prize". Together, they form a verb-object relationship within the compound, the action of "obtaining" is directly applied to the object "award", resulting in the transparent and intuitive meaning of "to receive an award". This structure exemplifies the analytic and combinatorial nature of much Chinese vocabulary.