The word 视频 is formed through a direct, conceptual combination of its two components: 视 (shì), meaning "to see" or "vision", and 频 (pín), meaning "frequency" or "repeatedly". It is a modern compound where the first character defines the sensory domain (sight), and the second character conveys the technical medium (a signal of recurring frames or waves). Together, they logically synthesize to mean "video", literally, "visual frequency", capturing the essence of moving pictures transmitted as a sequence or signal.