亚运会
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Asian Games
🏅 亚 (Asia) + 运 (sports/transport) + 会 (meeting) = Asian sports meeting
Compound decomposition: 亚 means Asia (short for 亚洲), 运 here means athletics or sport (as in 运动), and 会 means meeting or gathering. Together: the Asian Games, a multi-sport event held every four years.
运 — walk radical 辶 + 军 jūn (army)
Originally depicted an army (军) on the move (辶), meaning to transport or move troops. The sense broadened to 'transport, move, revolve' and later acquired the abstract meaning of 'fortune' or 'luck'—what fate moves toward you. The simplified form replaces traditional 運.
会 — 人 person on top + 云 cloud/say below (simplified from 會)
The traditional form 會 showed a lid over a vessel with contents stacked inside, depicting things coming together — hence 'meet, gather, assemble.' From 'gathering' it extended to 'meeting,' then 'understand' (minds meeting) and 'be able to.' The simplified 会 keeps only a schematic top and bottom.