奥体中心

奧體中心
àotǐzhōngxīn
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 Olympic Sports Center
  2. 2 Olympic stadium complex (short for 奥林匹克体育中心)

Examples

Tā zài Běijīng àotǐ zhōngxīn kàn qiú.
He watched a match at the Beijing Olympic Sports Center.
Àotǐ zhōngxīn fùjìn yǒu dìtiě zhàn.
There's a subway station near the Olympic Sports Center.

Tips

culture
奥体中心 usually refers to Beijing's 国家奥林匹克体育中心, built for the 1990 Asian Games and upgraded for the 2008 Olympics. Many provincial capitals have their own 奥体中心 — Nanjing, Shenyang, Guangzhou, Ji'nan all built large stadium complexes for the (National Games) and named them this way. The short form is often used for the surrounding neighborhood and subway stop.
memory
here is short for 奥林匹克 (Olympic). is short for 体育 (sports). Decode any three-character Chinese institution name the same way — each character is usually shorthand for a longer compound.

Stroke Order

ào
zhōng
xīn