The Chinese word 退学 (tuìxué), meaning "to withdraw from school" or "to drop out", is a compound word formed through a straightforward verb-object grammatical structure. It combines the character 退 (tuì), which means "to retreat", "to withdraw", or "to decline", with the character 学 (xué), which means "study", "learning", or "school". Together, they create the literal sense of "withdrawing from study", where 退 acts as the action verb and 学 serves as its object, specifying what is being withdrawn from. This formation is logical and semantically transparent, clearly conveying the action of formally leaving an educational program, as opposed to temporarily suspending studies (休学).