The Chinese word 奥运会 (Àoyùnhuì), meaning "Olympic Games", is a condensed and semantically constructed abbreviation formed by extracting key morphemes from its full name, 奥林匹克运动会 (Àolínpǐkè Yùndònghuì). The first character 奥 (Ào) is taken from the transliteration 奥林匹克 (Àolínpǐkè) for "Olympic", the second character 运 (yùn) comes from 运动 (yùndòng) meaning "sport" or "athletic", and the final character 会 (huì) means "gathering" or "event". Thus, the compound logically represents the "Olympic sports gathering".