Let’s go to the stadium – today’s match isn’t being shown on TV.
Sentence #5617188 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted
How 体育馆 is built
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体tǐbody
亻person form of 人 · rén
本root · běn
Memory aidA person 亻 and a root 本: the body.
育yùto have children
亠lid · tóu
厶private · sī
⺼meat form of 肉 · ròu
Memory aidThe top is usually explained as a newborn child upside down, and below is the body ⺼: to give birth, to raise.
馆guǎnbuilding
饣eat form of 食 · shí
官official · guān
Memory aidFood 饣 with 官 (guān) for the sound: once a guest house, now a public building.
How to write 体育馆
体 7 strokes · 育 8 strokes · 馆 11 strokes
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Stroke order chart for 体育馆 (tǐyùguǎn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
体育馆 (tǐyùguǎn) means “gymnasium” or “indoor stadium”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it tǐyùguǎn: tǐ with a 3rd tone, then yù with a 4th tone, then guǎn with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 体育馆 is written 體育館. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 个 (gè). For example, one gymnasium is 一个体育馆 (yí ge tǐyùguǎn).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tiyuguan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 体育馆 from the suggestions. Typing tiyuguan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
体育馆 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 5 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.
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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.
体tǐ3rd tone, dipping
育yù4th tone, falling
