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Just a little trivia on common names that the chinese calls the SC:BW units, hope u guys find this interesting. They have alot of differents name for units depending on which commentators u listen to. All worker units are generally called Nong Minn, which means farmers/peons/peasants. Most readers here aren't familiar with pin yin so not using it.
[Unit/Spell names}
[Chinese names/pronounciations]<--- not pin yin, using letters to try to pronounce the words.
[literal meaning]
Protoss
Shen Zhu
Shen means divine being as in gods, angels, spirits stuff like that. Zhu means tribe or race. so literal translation would the God tribes, the god race or angel tribes etc etc
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Zealot
i)Chaa Bing, ii)Kwang Tuu
i)Fork/spear soldiers, ii)Fanatical disciples/zealots
Dragoon
Loong Qi
Dragon riders
Dark Templars
Yiing Dao
Invisible/hidden blades
High Templars
Dian Bing
Storm troopers/soldiers
Archons
Bai Qiu
White balls
Dark Archons
Hoong Qiu
Red balls
Shuttle
Yun Shu Ji
Transport craft
Reavers
Jing Jia Chong
Golden insects/worms
Observers
Ding Daang
something to do with Doraemon i guess or the sound they make when u select them, not quite sure :p
Carriers
Hang Muu
Naval flagships, which usually are carriers
Arbiters
Zhong Chai Zhe
Heavy scholars, not quite sure on this one
Corsairs
Hai Dao Chuan
Pirate's ship
Psi Storms
Dian
Electrics/storms, usually they say it Faang Dian, which literally means unleash storms.
Maelstrom
Zhen Dong
Stun freeze/frozen, word by word translation
Mind Control
Nao Koong
Brain control
Recall
Chuan Soong
Teleports
Stasis Field
Bing Doong
Ice freeze/frozen
Haven't heard any of the chinese commentators says anything about scouts before, i don't watch enough chinese commentaries :p
Terran
Ren Zhu
Means human race obviously.
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Jii Qiang Bing
Machine gun soldiers/troopers
Medics
Mei mei
Chicks
Siege Tanks
Taank keh
Tankuh Tankuh!
Vulture
Lei Cher
Mine Cars
Goliath
Jii Xie Ren
Robots/Mechanical human
Wraiths
Yiing Fei
Invisible/hidden flyers or planes
Battle Cruisers
Da Jian
Big arrows, or big ships
Science Vessels
Ker Jii Qiu
Techno ball
EMP Shockwave
Dian daan
Electric bombs
not quite sure what they call firebats or ghost yet, i'll update once i find out
Zerg
Chong Zhu
Insects/worms tribes or race
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Zergling
Xiao Gou
Small dogs
Overlord
Da nao, or Jian zhu
Big brains, or jian zhu which means buildings, so it kinda means flying buildings?
Hydralisk
i)Kou Shui Bing, ii)Chi serr (Tough to pronounce with english letters)
i)Spit/saliva soldiers, ii)Spike/thorn snakes
Lurkers
Dii Chi (same thing : /)
Ground spike/thorn
Mutalisk
Fei loong
Flying Dragons
Devourers/Guardians
Daa Loong
Big Dragons
Scourge
Zhi Saa ji
Suicide plane
Ultralisks
Da Xiang
Elephants
Defilers
Xie zi
Scorpions
thats it for now, i'll update if i find more.
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lol @ Archon and High Templars. This interesting, I didn't know different languages had different names for SC units. I always assumed they used the official names.
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i think "mei mei" is little sister rather than "chicks"
and I think they call all workers "gong ren"
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Why do they change all the name like that? Isn't it possible to write ultralisk or w/e in chineese. For exemple, if you get the french version some of the name like vulture will be translated to vautour but they still call ultralisk by their name it's not like ultralisk was the english word for cow :S.
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different kind of language
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Mystlord
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A little shaky on the pinyin.
Interesting names though. I don't listen to the chinese commentators at all, but it's kind of interesting to see what they call the units :D
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err isn't vulture thunder cars?
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On August 03 2009 10:19 Zepish wrote:
Why do they change all the name like that? Isn't it possible to write ultralisk or w/e in chineese. For exemple, if you get the french version some of the name like vulture will be translated to vautour but they still call ultralisk by their name it's not like ultralisk was the english word for cow :S.
chinese isn't latin based
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Observer is more common as OB. Never heard of yours before on PLU.
Hydralisk is just better being called 口水 which is just saliva spit.
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For zealots they are also sometimes called "cha cha", fork forks.
Hydralisks are sometimes called "kou shui bing", spit soldiers.
Tank is taken from the English sound so that's why it's so similar. I'm not sure if it has a meaning in Chinese though, is it "tan2 ke4"?
I don't watch the Chinese streams much since my PPLive is glitchy but the names are fun. What kind of chinese -> english system are you using btw?
I'm pretty fluent in Mandarin for daily conversations and stuff but anything like movies, news or commentaries are really hard for me to understand, I wish I was better with Chinese.
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That is a weird transcription. o_O
Knew most of em already but I still find them to be funny. ^^ Mandarin rocks.
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Firebats = huo bing
meaning fire soldiers.
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On August 03 2009 10:40 Superiorwolf wrote:
I'm not sure if it has a meaning in Chinese though, is it "tan2 ke4"?
坦克 = tan3ke4
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Some of these translations are a little too literal. A lot of the units are directly translated from name. For example, the Chinese name for carriers is indeed carriers or aircraft carriers, not naval flagship(the translation if you really break down the characters). And the name arbiter is based on real life arbiters, as in the people who make decisions in arbitration.
Btw, another name for hydra is spit.
Generally, the names are easy to figure out. The only ones I never really got are protoss structures. BY = Core. VR/VC/VS = Robotics facility/support bay/observatory.
On August 03 2009 10:27 AssuredVacancy wrote:
err isn't vulture thunder cars?
The word "Lei" has two meanings, both mines and thunder.
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On August 03 2009 10:53 baubo wrote:
Generally, the names are easy to figure out. The only ones I never really got are protoss structures. BY = Core. VR/VC/VS = Robotics facility/support bay/observatory.
BY/VR/VC/VS is literally just the hotkey combination to build the building. They use this convention for a lot of buildings actually (I remember BE for Engineering Bays and BA for Academy among other things).
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Where do you watch chinese commentaries?
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