The word 警方 is formed through a conceptual combination of two distinct characters: 警 (jǐng), which carries the core meaning of "police", "alert", or "warning", and 方 (fāng), which means "side", "party", or "direction". They are fused not as a descriptive phrase but as a fixed compound where 方 acts as a nominalizer, transforming the concept of "police" from an abstract function or action into a concrete, organized body or institutional side. Thus, the formation semantically shifts from simply "police" to mean "the police side" or "the police authorities", creating a single term for the entity as a whole.