The Chinese word **酿酒** (niàngjiǔ), meaning "to brew alcohol," is a compound formed through the morphological process of **verb-object construction**. It combines the verb **酿** (niàng), which means "to ferment" or "to brew," with its direct object **酒** (jiǔ), meaning "alcohol" or "liquor." Together, the characters create a single lexical unit that denotes the action of producing alcoholic beverages through fermentation, exemplifying a highly productive and logical method of word formation in Chinese where an action is directly paired with the item it acts upon.