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BreAKerTV
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Taiwan1658 Posts
February 27 2012 11:00 GMT
#1
OK, so I just pulled a search on the teamliquid website (and google for that matter) and couldn't find any results on Chinese vocabulary items for Starcraft 2. I Really WanT to learn starcraft 2 related vocabulary because if my friends ask about it Here, then I like to fill them in on What I like to do.

Right now I am in Taiwan, I know, they use different vocabulary and different accents from mainlanders. I can read over ONE thousand common characters in simplified script and my traditional script reading skills are developing quickly. If you think I have made mistakes in translations, then please, by all means correct it. I would also prefer to know the more colloquial, more popular, words that you call these items.



FORENOTE: google TRANSLATE iS NOT A RELIABLE TRANSLATION SOURCE.

There's quite a few terms I need to know, I had no clue I would be working on this for this long...

Um, just help out as you see necessary, from time to time, just looked at the clock and saw I spent nearly an hour on this.

1) Non-Starcraft items that are related to SC2:
"Stream" or "streaming"
"Xsplit"
"Owned"
"Replay"
"Live for the Swarm!"
"Ragequit"

2)Starcraft Items I need to know:
Ladder
Campaign
Custom game
"Tower Defense" game
"Observer Mode"
"Detectors"
Hallucinations
"engagement"
"build (a structure)"
Lift off (a Terran structure)
Units:
Structures:
Mineral Fields
Vespene geysers
TurN (a structure in to something.( Ex: "Turning a Command Center Into an Orbital Command.)).
Make (a building or a unit)
Morph (a building or a unit)
Unit compositions:
Macro:
Micro:

Protoss- 神族
Units
Archons
Zealots
Stalkers
Immortals
Sentries
Observers
High TempLar
Dark TempLar
Probes
Carriers
Collossi
Void Rays
Phoenixes
Mothership

Structures
Nexus
Pylon
Gateway
Warpgate
Stargate
forge
cybernetics cOre
Photon Cannon
Robotics Facility
Robotics Bay:
Twilight Council:
TempLar Archives:
Dark Shrine:
Fleet Beacon:

Terran- 人類
Command Center:
Orbital Command
Planetary Fortress
BarrackS
Bunker
Reactor
Tech Lab
Engineering bay
Missile Turret
Sensor Tower
Ghost Academy
Factory
Armory
Starport
Fusion cOre
Refinery

Units:
SCVs
MULEs
Auto-turrets
Point Defense Drones
Marines
Marauders
Medivacs
Vikings
Ravens
Battlecruisers
SieGe Tanks
Thors
Helions
Reapers
Ghosts


Zerg - 蟲族
Units:
Zerglings: 小狗
Banelings:
Drones: 工蜂(農民?- worker?)
Roaches:
Hydralisks: 刺蛇
Mutalisks: 飛龍
Corruptors:
Queens: 后蟲
Ultralisks: 大象
larvae: 幼蟲
Overlords: 王蟲
Overseers:
Brood Lords:

Structures:
Hatchery:
Hydralisk Den
Lair:
Hive:
Ultralisk Cavern:
Nydus Canal:
Spore Crawler:
Spine Crawler:
Spawning pool:
Evolution chamber:
Roach Warren:
Spire:
Greater Spire:
Infestor Pit:
Creep:
Creep Tumor:

Special Abilities / Upgrade names:
Metabollic boost
Glial Reconstruction
Burrowing Claws
Burrow
Pneumatized Carapace
Ventral Sacs
Chitinous Armor
Pathogen Glands
Neural Parasite
"extractor trick"

EMP
Snipe
Stim
Deploy Point Defense Drone
Salvage
Liftoff (a building)
Thor'S Cannon Technique
SieGe Mode
Blue flame
Cloak

Psionic Storm
Feedback
Blink
zealOt Charge
Morph Archon
Graviton beam
Vortex
Mass Recall
Hallucinate
Force Field


Builds / Unit Compositions:
Mech Build
MarinE Medivac Marauder
Ling / BlinG / MuTa
Roach/ Infestor/ Brood Lord
Korean 4 gate
3 Gate robo
Stargate Opening
6 racks
"Cheese"

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ETisME
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
12329 Posts
February 27 2012 11:23 GMT
#2
the vocab is the same, it's just that one is simplified and one is traditional chinese.
you can get most of the official translated names over the tw battlenet here:
http://tw.battle.net/sc2/zh/game/unit/

for workers, they tend to use 農民 instead, and it means farmers/peasants.
其疾如风,其徐如林,侵掠如火,不动如山,难知如阴,动如雷震。
koj
Profile Joined November 2010
Germany17 Posts
February 27 2012 12:39 GMT
#3
Hi,

another option is looking into the Chinese Wikipedia, e.g.

http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/蟲族_(星海爭霸)
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theBALLS
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Singapore2935 Posts
February 27 2012 12:43 GMT
#4
Dude

Are Zerglings really called "Puppies" and Ultralisks "Big Elephants"?

If you lose the stick, you'll always have theBALLS.
divinesage
Profile Joined April 2010
Singapore649 Posts
February 27 2012 13:14 GMT
#5
On February 27 2012 21:43 theBALLS wrote:
Dude

Are Zerglings really called "Puppies" and Ultralisks "Big Elephants"?



Yes they are, go watch a couple of mandarin streams and you'll find out for yourself.
lhr0909
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States562 Posts
February 27 2012 13:55 GMT
#6
I am Chinese, so I am going to translate the first couple for you, for the units you can get them from the website. And people in mainland China call them differently from people from Taiwan for some units. :D

1) Non-Starcraft items that are related to SC2:
"Stream" or "streaming" - 直播
"Xsplit"
"Owned"
"Replay" - 錄像
"Live for the Swarm!" - 為蟲族而生
"Ragequit" - don't think there is a term for that

2)Starcraft Items I need to know:
Ladder - 天梯
Campaign - 戰役
Custom game - 自定遊戲
"Tower Defense" game - 塔防遊戲
"Observer Mode" - not sure if there is one for that
"Detectors" - 反隱單位
Hallucinations - 幻象 (maybe)
"engagement" - 交戰
"build (a structure)" - 造
Lift off (a Terran structure) - 飛起
Units: - 單位
Structures: - 建築
Mineral Fields - 晶礦
Vespene geysers - 氣礦
TurN (a structure in to something.( Ex: "Turning a Command Center Into an Orbital Command.)). - 升級 (it means upgrade, but it is an upgrade)
Make (a building or a unit) - 造
Morph (a building or a unit) - 造
Unit compositions: - 兵種搭配
Macro: - 運營
Micro: - 微操
No Pain No Gain
lhr0909
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States562 Posts
February 27 2012 13:56 GMT
#7
On February 27 2012 21:43 theBALLS wrote:
Dude

Are Zerglings really called "Puppies" and Ultralisks "Big Elephants"?



yes.

in China Marauders are called 光头 (bald head). Which is the best imo
No Pain No Gain
Blasterion
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
China10272 Posts
February 27 2012 14:01 GMT
#8
Templars are called lightning 闪电 because you know you use them to storm and nothing else.

Zealots are called XX because the XX sound they make when they attack in BW

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Blasterion
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
China10272 Posts
February 27 2012 14:02 GMT
#9
On February 27 2012 22:56 lhr0909 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 27 2012 21:43 theBALLS wrote:
Dude

Are Zerglings really called "Puppies" and Ultralisks "Big Elephants"?



yes.

in China Marauders are called 光头 (bald head). Which is the best imo

I don't know about that alot of people call them 胖子 too. (Fatties)
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Sufficiency
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada23833 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-02-27 14:08:32
February 27 2012 14:08 GMT
#10
I think most Chinese commentators like to call anything that adds population limit "房子" (houses). This include supply depots, overlords, etc.
https://twitter.com/SufficientStats
Mobius_1
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United Kingdom2763 Posts
February 27 2012 14:09 GMT
#11
For the unit names, as officially defined by Blizzard:

http://www.battlenet.com.cn/sc2/zh/game/unit/

I think it also defines all the other stuff too, maybe except for upgrade/tech buildings but most of the time gamers just refer to them by their hotkey anyway, so VC is Twilight Council and VA is Armory.

Also my personal favourite name for Marauders is 城管 :D
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Robinsa
Profile Joined May 2009
Japan1333 Posts
February 27 2012 14:15 GMT
#12
I dont speak chinese and only speak Japanese and when I look at the characters youve suggested for drone I think theyre wrong. 農民 is farmer and some other word is proboably better!
4649!!
Blasterion
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
China10272 Posts
February 27 2012 14:32 GMT
#13
On February 27 2012 23:09 Mobius_1 wrote:
For the unit names, as officially defined by Blizzard:

http://www.battlenet.com.cn/sc2/zh/game/unit/

I think it also defines all the other stuff too, maybe except for upgrade/tech buildings but most of the time gamers just refer to them by their hotkey anyway, so VC is Twilight Council and VA is Armory.

Also my personal favourite name for Marauders is 城管 :D

城管 is such a weird name though. But yeah it sounds awesome but I don't really think it makes much sense
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Caphe
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Vietnam10817 Posts
February 27 2012 15:01 GMT
#14
On February 27 2012 20:23 ETisME wrote:
the vocab is the same, it's just that one is simplified and one is traditional chinese.
you can get most of the official translated names over the tw battlenet here:
http://tw.battle.net/sc2/zh/game/unit/

for workers, they tend to use 農民 instead, and it means farmers/peasants.

Nah, Mainland SC2 version has some different names compare to the TW version.
Like Drones is "Nong min" in Mainland but "Gong chong" in TW version. The Queen name is different too.
Also, mainland players and casters use informal names for many of the units.
Terran
BreAKerTV
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Taiwan1658 Posts
February 27 2012 16:15 GMT
#15
On February 28 2012 00:01 Caphe wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 27 2012 20:23 ETisME wrote:
the vocab is the same, it's just that one is simplified and one is traditional chinese.
you can get most of the official translated names over the tw battlenet here:
http://tw.battle.net/sc2/zh/game/unit/

for workers, they tend to use 農民 instead, and it means farmers/peasants.

Nah, Mainland SC2 version has some different names compare to the TW version.
Like Drones is "Nong min" in Mainland but "Gong chong" in TW version. The Queen name is different too.
Also, mainland players and casters use informal names for many of the units.

exactly.

Alright, so I stepped out for a while and I want to say thanks guys. I'm a foreigner, not a "banana" who is learning these terms.
Retired caster / streamer "BingeHD". Digital Nomad.
seRapH
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States9719 Posts
February 27 2012 16:28 GMT
#16
I didn't know people use the term banana seriously I've only ever heard ABC used.
boomer hands
OopsOopsBaby
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Singapore3425 Posts
February 27 2012 16:29 GMT
#17
here are some easy ones.
Gateway : BG
cybernetics cOre : BY
Twilight Council: VC
s3x2-2 xiao3x2+2 bone3+2+2
Blasterion
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
China10272 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-02-27 16:48:43
February 27 2012 16:46 GMT
#18
On February 28 2012 01:29 OopsOopsBaby wrote:
here are some easy ones.
Gateway : BG
cybernetics cOre : BY
Twilight Council: VC

lol I laugh at that too

btw barracks is BB
factory is VF
Starport is VS

just continuing the trend

4 BG 实在是太强了

Or。。。

TvP啊。。。我还不如给他来个真善美。
TvP....Time for me to 1/1/1

The 真善美 is a real punchline character, it came from the cult religion in China which the government kind of stomped on. and they had a punchline in their propaganda which was 真善美 and we SC2 players refer to 1/1/1 as 真善美 because it's evil like the cult.
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theBALLS
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Singapore2935 Posts
February 27 2012 16:59 GMT
#19
On February 27 2012 22:14 divinesage wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 27 2012 21:43 theBALLS wrote:
Dude

Are Zerglings really called "Puppies" and Ultralisks "Big Elephants"?



Yes they are, go watch a couple of mandarin streams and you'll find out for yourself.

Oh god that is weird :S
If you lose the stick, you'll always have theBALLS.
theBALLS
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Singapore2935 Posts
February 27 2012 17:00 GMT
#20
On February 27 2012 22:56 lhr0909 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 27 2012 21:43 theBALLS wrote:
Dude

Are Zerglings really called "Puppies" and Ultralisks "Big Elephants"?



yes.

in China Marauders are called 光头 (bald head). Which is the best imo

I think Blizzard is trolling the Chinese scene
If you lose the stick, you'll always have theBALLS.
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