Talking about uncommon hobbies...

lunetta
 January 25, 2008, 03:18 PM posted in General Discussion
...I hope someone could tell me the Chinese word for handball. Around these parts of the world it's a pretty popular sport and right now most of Denmark is suffering from handball fever because the men's national team has gone on to the semifinals in the European Championship beating among others the olympic champions from Croazia. Of course the best of all would be an olympic lesson on this sport! :-) 
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bazza
 January 25, 2008, 03:55 PM

Just click the 中文 link on wikipedia. ;) http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E6%89%8B%E7%90%83&variant=zh-hans

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RJ
 January 25, 2008, 03:56 PM

Im just guessing but wouldnt it just be 手球 ? shouqiu - hand ball? At least thats the literal.

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bazza
 January 25, 2008, 03:57 PM

Yep, it is.

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lunetta
 January 25, 2008, 04:10 PM

Thanks Bazza, sometimes the solution is just too obvious. By the way, did you know that the world's best female handball player in the year 2002 was a Chinese woman? Her name is Chao Zhai http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chao_Zhai but she doesn't seem to have a page in mandarin so I don't know the hanzi for her name.

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RJ
 January 25, 2008, 06:16 PM

Her name is 翟超- this one gives it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhai_Chao

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lunetta
 January 25, 2008, 06:27 PM

Thanks, Bob! I really need to go work on my research skills now! :-)

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goulnik
 January 25, 2008, 06:27 PM

obvious soluton for basketball 篮球, football 足球, but it gets tricky with volleyball 排球 (排 pái as in 'pie') and since we're getting into food, it no longer works with meatballs 肉圆 ròuyuán :-)