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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.
+ Show Spoiler +Marines
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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Hydralisk
"Spike/thorn snakes"
Very creative!
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On August 03 2009 11:06 darktreb wrote:Show nested quote +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).
Yeah. I only found out very recently. It's due to me start watching SC and I've stopped playing the game myself. So it didn't occur to me. They use this for a lot of the buildings, as you say. I just mentioned those because they get mentioned more(intricate part of every protoss BO).
Umbrella: I don't know if there are others, but PLU(www.plu.cn) has live Chinese commentary of just about all the games. I'm surprised you don't know about them, considering there's usually some bitching about the Chinese commentary on the LR threads.
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On August 03 2009 10:53 baubo wrote: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. Show nested quote +On August 03 2009 10:27 AssuredVacancy wrote:
err isn't vulture thunder cars? The word "Lei" has two meanings, both mines and thunder.
so Lei Lei = thunder thunder/mine mine/thunder mine
?(talking about the player of course)
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On August 03 2009 16:33 arb wrote:Show nested quote +On August 03 2009 10:53 baubo wrote: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. so Lei Lei = thunder thunder/mine mine/thunder mine ?(talking about the player of course)
No. That's totally different. I know in pinyin(Chinese version of Romaji) it all looks the same. But leilei the starcraft nickname is based on the player's own first name, Lei(磊). Calling the first name twice, Leilei, is a common practice for close friends for certain names. The closest English analogy would be Bill for William or Cathy or Catherine.
The character is different from 雷, which means thunder/mine.
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White balls and Red balls is awesome, the english casters should start using that aswell.
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so theres no:
keso kesoooo
or
asimida
involved in chinese commentating. What words do chinese use to strengthen an expression?
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On August 03 2009 11:28 ActualSteve wrote:
Hydralisk
"Spike/thorn snakes"
Very creative!
I remember other commentators calling them 'kou shui' , which means saliva.
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Hmm.. Aint ultralisks = cow (niu)?
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lol now i just need to hear commentary in cantonese
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this is like the SC2 units translated into korean..
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they call all worker nong min (farmers)
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It's interesting to see some of the differences between names used in "official" mandarin commentating and the more "slang" terms used here in Taiwan.
For example, we call reavers "caterpillars", but I imagine that wouldn't sound quite as professional in a broadcast.
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I've always heard Overlords called houses in Chinese :x
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On August 03 2009 20:39 kaleidoscope wrote:
Hmm.. Aint ultralisks = cow (niu)?
They can be called either one.
On August 04 2009 12:44 Last Romantic wrote:
I've always heard Overlords called houses in Chinese :x
They are. Same with supply depots. Oddly enough, pylons are called... pylons. 
Many units have multiple names. The OP just listed some used, but not even close to all of them. Chinese names are much more varied since they don't have official names to go by. And the names are more or less based on what the units do. i.e. photon cannons and sunkens are both called "land protectors", while spores and turrets are both called "anti-air".
On August 04 2009 12:22 Funnytoss wrote:
It's interesting to see some of the differences between names used in "official" mandarin commentating and the more "slang" terms used here in Taiwan.
For example, we call reavers "caterpillars", but I imagine that wouldn't sound quite as professional in a broadcast.
Trust me, the mandarin commentators are anything but "official". This doesn't come across with unit names, but more so with making fun of players.
For example, Skyhigh's nick was "Bad-Four Terran", which stood for: Bad game sense, Bad control, Bad attack, Bad looks. But now that Skyhigh has gotten good, the commentator's like... I got to change his nick.
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On August 03 2009 17:52 Alur wrote:
White balls and Red balls is awesome, the english casters should start using that aswell.
Science balls :D
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I love listening to Chinese commentary, even though my Chinese sucks. I sometimes hear them call stuff "fake", just not in the context we use that word in English. Judging from context, the only meaning I can come up with is roughly "screwed up." Anyone better at Chinese care to enlighten me? =D
Also, just wondering, how insightful are the chinese commentators on PPStream or UUSee, compared to, say, Tasteless? I'm pretty bad so I can't really tell.
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Some of the ones that I have heard that hasn't been mentioned yet, will add more as I remember it.
Defiler = scorpion (xie zi, 蝎子)
Dark swarm = fog (pen wu, 喷雾, literally "blow/spit fog")
Plague = spit blood (pen xue, 喷血)
Barrack = barrack (bing ying, 兵营)
Factory = heavy factory (zhong gong chang, 重工厂, or zhong gong for short)
Starport = airport (fei ji chang, 飞机场)
Spawning pool = dog pool (gou chi, 狗池)
Irradiate = radiation (fu she, 辐射)
-Note for non-chinese speakers: 'pen' in pingying sound more closer to 'pun', and 'she' sounds more like 'sher', in case you are interested.
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Sometimes they like to name stuff by the hotkey.
e.g. Armory = VA. robo bay = VR
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On August 03 2009 10:27 AssuredVacancy wrote:
err isn't vulture thunder cars?
technically 雷车 is thundercar. but since 地雷 means mine or bomb.
everyone knows that the 雷 in 雷车 refers to bombs and not thunder
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your pinyin needs serious work bro.
ren zu, chong zu, shen zu
not zhu.
also hydras are known as 口水， kou2shui3, which just means saliva
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Or. you guys can download the QQ pinyin thing and its seriously awesome :D
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Thanks for this nice info 
edit: The zerg unit names are kinda funny
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On August 03 2009 10:07 Shizuru~ wrote: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. + Show Spoiler +[Unit/Spell names} [Chinese names/pronounciations] [literal meaning] ProtossShen 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 + Show Spoiler +
Zealot
Kwang Tuu
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
TerranRen Zhu Means human race obviously. + Show Spoiler +Marines
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
ZergChong Zhu Insects/worms tribes or race + Show Spoiler +
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
Chi serr (Tough to pronounce with english letters)
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
thats it for now, i'll update if i find more.
A few corrections
Mei Mei ( Medic ) - Little sister/Young girl
Lei Cher ( Vulture ) - Lightning car
Zhi Saa Ji ( Scourge ) - Suicidal chicken
The rest are pretty accurate [:
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...storm troopers?
uhmm..plaguarism rofl
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My friends call Hydralisks "ko shui bing" -- spit soldiers. 
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