HSK 6 · Money

博览会 bólǎnhuì “exhibition” in Chinese

Traditional 博覽會

What 博览会 means

  1. exhibition
  2. expo
  3. fair
  4. an exposition
  5. an international fair

How to say 博览会

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale博bó2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale览lǎn3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale会huì4th tone, falling

博览会 in a sentence

  1. 博览会将举行六个月。

    Bólǎnhuì jiāng jǔxíng liù ge yuè.

    The expo will run for six months.

    Sentence #389835 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 博览会 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 博 (bó) with each of its parts in a different colour
博bóabundant; plentiful; extensive; wide
  • 十ten · shíMeaning part
  • 尃to announce · fūSound part

十 hints at the meaning (ten); 尃 (fū) hints at the sound. Compare it with bó.

The character 览 (lǎn) drawn as one shape
览lǎnto look at

览 is a single shape of 9 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

The character 会 (huì) with each of its parts in a different colour
会huìcan; to have the skill; to know how to
  • 人person · rén
  • 云cloud · yún

Memory aidPeople 人 getting together to talk 云 (云 meant “to say” in old Chinese): to meet, and to know how.

How to write 博览会

博 12 strokes · 览 9 strokes · 会 6 strokes

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博览会 (bólǎnhuì) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 博览会 (bólǎnhuì). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 博览会

Words with 博

博士bóshì · doctorate博物馆bówùguǎn · museum赌博dǔbó · to gamble博大精深bódàjīngshēn · broad and profound (of knowledge or culture)

Words with 览

游览yóulǎn · to go sightseeing浏览liúlǎn · to skim over展览zhǎnlǎn · to put on display

Words with 会

会huì · can会议huìyì · meeting机会jīhuì · opportunity开会kāihuì · to have a meeting晚会wǎnhuì · evening party一会儿yíhuìr · a while运动会yùndònghuì · sports meet误会wùhuì · to misunderstand约会yuēhuì · appointment聚会jùhuì · party

More words: Money & Economy

资金zījīn · funds资源zīyuán · resources昂贵ángguì · expensive本钱běnqián · capital补偿bǔcháng · to compensate补贴bǔtiē · subsidy财富cáifù · wealth采购cǎigòu · to purchase (for an organisation)

FAQs

博览会 (bólǎnhuì) means “exhibition” or “expo”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it bólǎnhuì: bó with a 2nd tone, then lǎn with a 3rd tone, then huì with a 4th 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, 博览会 is written 博覽會. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type bolanhui with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 博览会 from the suggestions. Typing bolanhui into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
博览会 is an HSK 6 word in the 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.