The Chinese word 被告人 (bèigàorén), meaning "the accused" or "defendant" in a legal context, is formed through a straightforward morphological process common in Modern Standard Chinese. It is a compound noun constructed from three morphemes: the passive marker 被 (bèi), meaning "to be" (in a passive sense); the verb 告 (gào), meaning "to accuse" or "to sue"; and the noun 人 (rén), meaning "person". When combined in sequence, 被-告-人 literally parses as "the person who is accused", functioning as a precise and formal term for the party against whom a legal case is brought in court. Its formation is analogous to grammatical structures in English like "the sued-one", but is lexicalized as a single, standard unit of vocabulary.