长安街

長安街
Cháng'ān Jiē
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Chang'an Avenue (Beijing's east-west ceremonial axis)

Examples

HSK 7-9
Cháng'ānjiē chuānguò Tiān'ānmén Guǎngchǎng.
Chang'an Avenue passes through Tiananmen Square.
HSK 7-9
Guóqìng yuèbīng shì zài Cháng'ānjiē shàng jǔxíng de.
The National Day military parade is held on Chang'an Avenue.

Tips

history
Named after the Tang-dynasty capital 长安 ("Eternal Peace", today's Xi'an). Laid out under the Ming, it was widened to 120m in 1959 so tanks could parade past Tiananmen. Nicknamed 神州第一街 - "China's First Street".
mistakes
Use the apostrophe: Cháng'ān Jiē, not Chángān. The apostrophe signals that starts a new syllable, otherwise "ngan" would be ambiguous. Same rule in Xī'ān, Tiān'ānmén.

Stroke Order

cháng
ān
jiē