The word 视觉 is formed by combining two meaningful characters: 视 (shì), which means "to see" or "sight", and 觉 (jué), which means "to perceive" or "sense". Together, they conceptually merge to create a single, unified idea that is greater than the sum of its parts, specifically, the faculty or phenomenon of "vision" or "visual perception", where the act of seeing is intrinsically linked to the conscious awareness and processing of what is seen.