博览会

bólǎnhuì · HSK 5

exhibition

🎪 博览会 = broad + view + meeting (a meeting to broadly view things)

博 = broad/extensive, 览 = view/survey, 会 = meeting/gathering. So it's a gathering where you broadly view many things on display — an expo or trade fair.

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.

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