Super Funny Chinese Nicknames for Figure Skaters Explained | What's Yuzuru's nickname in China?

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Anyone think Nathan deserves a better nickname? If so, put a "Like" under this comment and give your suggestion if any! And is there any other skaters' nicknames you wanna see? Let us know in the comment as well. Cheers~

[@人参-y3f]

I think almost the bad nickname for Nathan is because he is a Chinese but also an American.I saw some comments before was about the China people commented a girl from America but Chinese “what a pity the girl not representing China ”😂😅

[@whitneylu9986]

Sorry, Nathan is not very popular in China. Chinese people are not so interested in him, that’s why his nickname isn’t not that important for him!

[@FigureSkatingFan]

@@人参-y3f Yes you are right. When we did our research, we saw many people commenting on him saying that he looks like Chinese but skate for USA. That's why they didn't like him. Another skater who got a bad nickname in China is Patrick Chan, same reason as Nathan as well. Basically both No. 2 and No. 3 as description words are derogatory. We didn't have enough time to explain.. No. 2 has a meaning of being arrogant. No. 3 just means bad. Haiz..

[@FigureSkatingFan]

@@whitneylu9986 Yes that too. Coz Nathan couldn't speak Chinese despite being a Chinese descendant. And yeah it's not important to Nathan at all.. He's strong and definitely won't be bothered by that :) We wanna call him "Wei Wei" （威威）which is the same sound of his name in Chinese, which can also mean "Mighty" haha

[@mithrandirstormcrow4952]

@@人参-y3f As a member of the Chinese diaspora, who grew up outside China, yes. Some Chinese folks get real weird about ethnic Chinese people representing another country, doing well, and not supporting China.

[@adamallen3099]

I am from China. The nick name for Anna is actually not what the video explained. The real explanation for Anna's nick name is her elegance and well-educated class gesture seems like she is the daughter from a noble family.

[@minus21334]

Precious darling would be more accurate

[@dennnisliberta2243]

exactly

[@adamallen3099]

@@minus21334 very, very true. You got the point.

[@katelynblackiston3147]

"Collect Silver Machine" basically covers Shoma's entire career. That should be his standardized title everywhere.

[@FigureSkatingFan]

🤭🤔🤣😂😅

[@turtlefeesh]

LMAO

[@lamcy1731]

this title is so sad omg

[@除了錢一無所有]

Dude, you're so bad😂But this year it's not the case😣Yet, if we take that in Cantonese, a dialect of Chinese, 收銀機 also means cashier. That's pretty interesting for me to look onto

[@yukishiro3287]

The first character, I thought they were referring to "Sho" from his name, but the nickname is really good lol...

[@welcometojohnnysfashioneva8221]

I was so not ready for laughing cow and instant noodle elder sister 😂

[@FigureSkatingFan]

😂😆😜😅 These Chinese fans are genius!

[@bazita024mocho7]

After 2020 NATIONALS, HANYU got his new nickname from Chinese fans -- “Eternal God”（永远的神）. 😂 And his SP nickname is 'excited baby'（嗨宝）、FS is called 'God of War'（战神 Because the music depicts the most famous war gods in Japanese history, Kenshin Uesugi, who was good at fighting but looked forward to peace）。

[@FigureSkatingFan]

👍 so nice!!

[@小耗子-v5e]

will,eternal god=永远的神=yyds=永远单身=single forever,so hanyu yuzuru will be single forever🤔🤔

[@n0yalicious437]

I laughed hard at the Collect Silver Machine. The fans created this are witty

[@mackayla8262]

The best part is that it is actually what we call a cashier😂

[@etupirkadaniele5458]

Also Hanyu's name in Kanji also fits him perfectly in Chinese meaning.羽生结弦。羽 means feather or wings生means born 弦could mean silk strings used by ancient Chinese musical instrument Guqin or Guzheng or Erhu to play music, so basically his original name in Chinese means "Born with wings to fly into sky and dance with music".And this could lead to the imagination of a white crane or swan dancing in the sky, and crane is the national bird in China. So we once used ancient poetry to describe him as "飄若驚鴻，婉若游龙。” which means "His body soars lightly like a startled swan, Gracefully, like a dragon in sky." I prefer to call him羽生cuz it's really beautiful.

[@tinavo1623]

I didn’t know that Yuzuru is so popular in China. Well, he’s popular everywhere. Just imagine the Winnie the Pooh chaos in 2022 Olympic.

[@lopigsara9149]

I don't think Winnie the pooh is allowed is China...

[@samanthachan193]

@@lopigsara9149 actually pooh isn't that hated in China. A lot of yuzu fans have pooh dolls.

[@etaicyt]

Actually Pooh was always banned in Olympic games along with all the other things that remind people with famous brands. Also I dont think they will take public audience in Beijing OWG due to covid 19.

[@100-q8v]

Come on, please don't spread the wrong info. Cannot you see his Chinese fans holding Pooh Sang outside the stadium in the Chinese news?

[@Robin-hv5tv]

@@lopigsara9149 According to western media aka bullshit loool. I can legit go into baidu (chinas search engine) and find tons of winnie the pooh

[@247withHappiness]

whoah yuzu's popularity is insane

[@FigureSkatingFan]

He is! He really makes people believe that love has no boundary. It goes beyond nationality and historical feud. He could very well be the poster man for Japan/Chinese relationship

[@SkateInsider]

literally choked myself at eteri's nickname 😭

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Hahaha when we first saw the Reddit post, trust us we choked too!! Chinese people are so.. How to put it? Full of imagination haha 😂

[@talisa222]

Before I watched the video I was like wtf why?? but HAHAHA I never would've seen it. Now I can't unsee.

[@guwonnn]

Hanyu's face after hearing "from China" got me rolling on the floor

[@chunghuey113]

This is so entertaining! I laughed so bad throughout the video. I like the celebrities reactions on the nicknames too! They are so full of humor themselves. 19:41 - Anyone noticed Yuzu is trying to step up when he was taking photo with the KZbinr so he appears taller? Hahaha he is so competitive not just on ice, on height too!! :-D

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Very good observation!!!

[@denalihedgehog]

Everybody: has a cute or funny nickname Trusova: Just Sasha

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Hahaha actually we just realized (Thanks to some Chinese who commented in our comment section) that Sasha has another really really funny and spot on nickname in China. Some Chinese fans called her - 特鲁索夫, which is the translation of Trusov (As if she is a "Guy" not a girl) This is because she got so many quad jumps and can really compete with the men. So funny right?! And many many more interesting nicknames. We are definitely thinking about part 2 later to include more :P

[@Candice7042]

I heard another nick name for Trusova is “战斗萝莉” which means fighting Lolita. That combines her fighting spirit with her pretty look.

[@fabi0681]

"They love you, they give you a nickname. They hate you, they give you a nickname" omg all these crazy nicknames are hilarious!!! Specially "noodle sister" lololol🤣

[@FigureSkatingFan]

😜🤪🤩 Hahaha trust us we have a good laugh ourselves everytime we swarm in this Chinese internet discussion. New nicknames keep appearing! :P Really thinking hard about how to make a part 2 that’s interesting as well haha

[@nikkichong7068]

🤣😂 I can't stop laughing 🤣 Instant noodles sister... White bear Collect silver machine... OMG! Hahahaha 🤣

[@chunghuey113]

OMG Me too!! I found these 3 nicknames the funniest! I choked so bad at the White Bear. I already know Instant Noodle after reading their description. Then when Ghislain come, they said "White Bear". I was like.. Is it because Ghislain looks like bear? Then immediately a photo of Ghislain and bear side by side, I laughed so bad at that point! :PPP

[@naurrr]

Shoma and Nathan's nicknames had me dying laughing 😂 SILVER COLLECTING MACHINE OUCH

[@airilyyy]

Omg! Never have I been so glad to be a native speaker of chinese HAHAH The meaning in those nicknames are so deep and witty at the same time I LMAOed and died.

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Chinese are genius!

[@turtlefeesh]

Omg same!! 收银台 made me choke on my spit 🤣🤣🤣

[@b2uty4u15]

As a Chinese, I feel very much exposed lmaooo When I first started watching live broadcast figure skating comps I was so bewildered by all these nicknames in the comments section lol, I couldn't figure out who were they referring to, but now I join in the fun haha P.S. My fav nickname is the one for Elizaveta Tuktamysheva = 蔡明姐

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Hahahah chinese are genius!! When we watched the Japanese National on the QQ livestream, we couldn’t stop laughing when we saw all these nicknames appeared :p yes we just learnt about 蔡明姐 story!! Super adorable! Thinking hard on part 2 now :p

[@guiwu]

@@moon-bean She looks very much like a Chinese actress whose name is 蔡明😂

[@nikkich080g]

Lol! What can I say? These Chinese people who give those nicknames are genius haha! Didn't expect that those nicknames are so meaningful... But some nicknames meaning really...Not that good! As what you said: "They love you, they give you a nickname. They hate you, they give you a nickname too..." 😂

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Suggest a better nickname for Nathan please :)

[@nenavujicin7882]

@@FigureSkatingFan , yes, yes !!!!! That's exactly what i was thinking :) !!!!!!!

[@yck9594]

@@FigureSkatingFan What for? Chinese skating funs will still use the nicknames they have already created anyway ......

[@kadovax6567]

Romsky nick name is waist holder or something like that 🤣🤣

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Hahaha what a nickname for Romsky! :P But unfortunately this waist holding video is going viral only in KZbin but not in Chinese internet (They can't access KZbin easily), and Romsky is not so famous among the Chinese figure skating fans community, so we couldn't find any nickname about him there yet. In this video, we will introduce the nickname of #Plushenko, #Sasha, #Alyona, #Eteri, #Daniil, #Anna, #Kamila, #Alina, #Zhenya, #TeamBO (Brian, Tracy, Ghislain), #Javi, #Shoma, #Nathan, then #Yuzu. A lot of nicknames you probably would never have thought about haha.. They really live in another world due to the lack of access to KZbin / IG etc. Yet they are so full of imagination. We died laughing when we were reading about those nicknames they gave for the players. Stay tuned for the full video release 😂😆😜 EDIT: Yes we found some who really called him 搂腰哥 - Waist Holder Brother hahaha

[@SwordSnapper289]

That is the best thing I've heard today

[@kadovax6567]

@@FigureSkatingFan yes, waist holder brother is the one I was thinking about. Thank you for finding it 💖

[@billbilson1645]

This is so hilarious. Thank you for this video. They love Hanyu so much that each of Hanyu”s program has a nickname as well. Hanyu is our beloved one. 👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Oh really?? That’s so interesting! We just started learning about the nicknames and searched about it fanatically last months. So Creative and we were so amused :p Can you explain more? Like nickname for each of Hanyu’s program?

[@anthonyleeuw5222]

@@FigureSkatingFan Some of the well known Chinese nicknames for Hanyu's programs are 小罗密欧(Little Romeo, impression of a young figure skater) for his 2012WC FS; 巴散 for Parisienne Walkways (巴黎 散步道，just picking out the first characters of paris and walkways); 牛丽叶 for his second Romeo&Juliet (Juliet is 朱丽叶in Chinese, so it's Juliet with a Hanyu twist); 魅影先生 (Mr. Phantom, with his COC ver. as 血魅，phantom in blood); 叙神（God Ballade, Ballade-叙事曲) and 晴皇（King/Emperor Seimei，Seimei-晴明), with an additional remark of these two collectively known as the dual Jade pieces of the empire '帝国双璧' etc. And there are the ones with the more convoluted interpretations and origins such as Notre dame, H&L, Origin and his exhibition programs, along with alternative names for the same program LOL

[@FigureSkatingFan]

@@anthonyleeuw5222 Wow didn't know that! Thanks for the information. Love the Chinese fans! Soo creative!!!

[@billbilson1645]

You can make another video

[@Aileen0826s]

This is a really well made video that explained Chinese language and the nicknames that we use on different characters. Very impressed and thank you for making this awesome video

[@hanayapianoscores8526]

Being sb who knows Chinese it's real funny to see how y'all explain this and I'm laughing so hard under the blankets lol

[@FigureSkatingFan]

HAHHAHAHA.. Chinese people are genius!! Such a delightful way of expressing love/hate to the skaters :) We learn so much!!

[@whitneylu9986]

羽生被叫 “哈牛 ” 表示他真的很 “ 牛 ” 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻！

[@FigureSkatingFan]

超级牛的。。

[@zuichen8873]

哈哈，大家也喊牛哥

[@zuichen8873]

@@FigureSkatingFan 请问你是中国人吗

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Zui Chen 不是哦。也不是香港/台湾人 😅 我们是一个团队。我个人的国籍就不说了哈哈🤫

[@chenqing7383]

Everything is amazing, but I want to take a moment to appreciate "Wu Ji" in the background. Thanks to whoever decided to put it on. HAHAHHA 💖❤️

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Oh hi chenqing(ling)! Hahaha this music is just so nice and addictive :) And we couldn't help.. 😀

[@rae4081]

Omg same i heard it and i thought i was real tired and hearing thingd then j listened closer 😭😭😭

[@Chichi-.-]

哈！太有趣了！😄「柚子」這個暱稱很可愛！ 我也最喜歡柚子了！但還是希望不要單單因為其他選手 贏過 自己喜歡的選手，而產生敵意 都是很優秀的選手們~😊

[@zhang1553]

Exactly! I hate those fans who keep trashing athletes who beat their idol in the competition. They also spread rumors about those athletes. Shame on them!

[@tisha8625]

Thank you for the video. It was fun to watch. I love that chinese nicknames of Brian and Tracy. In Russia many fs fans call Brian as "Batya" (dad) Orser and Tracy as "Mama" (mom) Tracy

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Wow! Thank you for letting us know! It's so interesting to hear about the Russia nicknames for foreigners. Daddy and Mommy - so cute! Any other interesting nicknames for the skaters and coach? **So interested in different languages and cultures here** 😀💕

[@tisha8625]

@@FigureSkatingFan usually in Russia we just use short version of name or surname. But the only interesting i can remember is Plushenko's nickname. "Plush" in russian means hedera

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Tisha Ic!! Yes I know some people also call evgenia zhenya or Medved which means bear?

[@Laura-nm4eo]

@@FigureSkatingFan Yes, and some call Evgenia "medvezhonok", wich means a baby bear 🐻, we also call Sasha Trusova "Rocket", Alеna Kostornaya is "Angel", Tarasova and Morozov "Gingers" (Ryzhiki), Boikova and Kozlovski "Kittens" (Kisiki)

[@princesszoecalongui2618]

I think I would settle for the Nickname of YUZU as "ICE PRINCE" !!!!

[@turtlefeesh]

哈牛 is still better in my opinion because it's unique and only meant for him 🤠

[@nikkich080g]

Wow 😯 This video looks very interesting! Can’t wait! 😚

[@FigureSkatingFan]

We can't wait to share this too :)

[@cmarin2495]

Chinese figure skater fan heavily on Weibo here. Most contents are totally correct. Bravo and Thanks for introducing these to the world. Couple corrections and additional comments. Kostornaya’s nickname 飞天 （fly high) is popularized long before that program. I think a famous Weibo account first called her that because her jumps are really high. In fact most Russian skater girls are get a nickname when they are novice or even younger. For example, Akatiyeva is called 七妹(Seven sister) because she is born 2007.7.7

[@cmarin2495]

Also 千金 doesn’t just mean that Anna is from a wealthy family. It also describes a personal charisma (气质): Well-educated, gentle, calm, smart, humble and have good taste. (Anna fan here haha)

[@cmarin2495]

Another fun one is Tarakanova. Her nickname is 歪歪. 歪 means not straight or leaning. She gained this nickname because her jump axis is leaning very often.

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Thanks for all the information!!! SO nice to hear that 千金 actually meant something nice like this.. Coz we heard some Chinese people hate people from rich family.. So at first we thought Chinese don't like Anna and we were so sad! Now with your clarification, we are so happy to hear that :) We love Anna too!! The nickname for 歪歪 is genius!!! Chinese people are genius with all the fun nicknames!! :DD Definitely hope we can make a part 2 and introduce more nicknames to the world. Now collecting information and thinking about storyline. Please keep them coming :))

[@salmaalsabea]

Yuzuru hanyu master be my love fever slime with me my heart 🤗💗💗💗💗💗💗😍

[@100-q8v]

Lol, this is the best video that I have come across on KZbin for the past two years. Thank you for puttting all the info together :)

[@larissa1225]

Well, actually we have other two nicknames that could express Nathan Chen’s inflated GOE and PCS. One is “百岁山”, a bottled mineral water manufacturer called “Ganten” in English. Another is “淼淼”，since “水” means water and “淼” contains three “水”.

[@sirusyuzu8336]

我刚想说来着

[@lilac6257]

Collecting silver machine should be seen positively, as it is simply amazing 👏

[@claiirdelunee]

very true (much better than chicken pox!!)

[@atacorn]

He has started collecting gold now.

[@sailormoonserenity99]

Ahaha including that skating scene from Zhen Huan is the perfect start, and halfway through I finally realized Wuji was playing 😂 tysm for this great video

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Hahaha Finally someone mentioned about Zhen Huan clip!! Yes this is the comment we are waiting for! We love that drama Zhen Huan Zhuan :))

[@maxhunter953]

I laughed out specially with “noodle sister” even as a Chinese. hahahaha who ever named her is a genius! There is correction: For Anna 千金. Not only represent from Rich family, it’s a honorific title to someone’s daughter who is polite，well educated, nice , kind pretty much all the positive things to have for the girl. Compacted to explain but in short, the title/nickname contains the best of the best love and all positives on a girl. For Nathan Chan. 三儿 in this term the “儿” is a modal particle，doesn’t contain meaning when used like this. In Chinese grammar it called 儿化音. also “小三” in this situation should trans as “the third” or more likely “the little three”. Easier to understand would be Michael to Mike. Somehow Similar to 儿化音 but in different ways. Definition “Homewrecker” is a slang,abbreviation of the third (三）party of the marriage/ relationship(婚姻第三者，第三者）this definition only triggers or 99% times involving in relationships and normally on females. For my loved Saha! We also call her 莎皇. Queen Sasha/ Empress Sasha The same to others. At last, thank you for sharing! Really enjoyed

[@yohanes2034]

I had a lot of laugh watching this video, great job! It must have taken a lot of research work compiling this information.

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Haha yes it took us around 1-2 months to crawl all the articles and asked many friends for the meanings before we decided to make this video. But we learnt so much ourselves and the entire process was so fun! Even when we were editing the video we couldn't stop ourselves from laughing.. Some even choked when we put Ghislain and the Bear photos side by side.. We might make a part 2 as there's still a lot of nicknames we couldn't cover but they are really funny too.. Stay tuned 😂😀💕

[@yohanes2034]

@@FigureSkatingFan Appreciate the hard work! I know about the nicknaming culture of the Chinese people because their language is so different. From that the creativity is born lol.

[@hexkarlahkhk]

One of the Chi nickname I love is 貓 (means cat, pronouns as mao) for Mao Asada.

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Mao Mao 貓貓 - Yeah it's so cute :))

[@zackzhang6335]

I love Mao!

[@yukishiro3287]

"K-Bao" can also mean "K-Treasure"; Medvedava's nickname may be a shortened way to call her, but when I first heard of this nickname, I thought of peach flower doll (never heard her name in Chinese so never knew), which is pretty beautiful as a nickname

[@maudRaven]

I had so much fun watching. Thanks for sharing this. ♥

[@FigureSkatingFan]

😀💕 Thank you for joining our premiere :)

[@purplerush_]

Trying not to laugh 🤣 Anyway, I love how you showed WangXian figure skating perf and added a WangXian bgm

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Haha the music from Wangxian is so addictive :p

[@angie6898]

When I saw 小三 for Nathan I frickin’ chocked and couldn’t stop laughing omg - What an excellent video, hilarious!! 🤣

[@vateylim6837]

Give me a good laugh on those nicknames and wholesome video with the background soundtrack that I love (wuji/wangxian)

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Yay we love the soundtrack of The Untamed so much! Never watched the Drama but for the music, we love it instantaneously. Soo nice 😀

[@vateylim6837]

@@FigureSkatingFan the drama is also amazing if u have time can check it out 😁

[@maritessposadas3360]

entertaining stuff. i was just laughing at some of the nicknames 💕💕💕

[@FigureSkatingFan]

When we were researching it online, we had a really good laugh ourselves too!! Chinese people are genius in nickname department. We really have to give it to them :P

[@maritessposadas3360]

@@FigureSkatingFan eteri's nickname is the funniest lol 🤣🤣🤣

[@FigureSkatingFan]

@@maritessposadas3360 Super agree. Haha that name also inspired us to search rampantly through the Chinese internet for more nicknames and thus this video :D

[@emilywei5391]

Tbh I think we don’t like NC mainly because he got so much GOE and PCS due to the love of ISU when he didn’t perform to that level, especially the long wait before each jump, the not so great axel, the lack of transitions, etc.. another reason of course, is because he’s a rival of Yuzuru but we don’t think he reached the level of Yuzuru. When Yuzuru was working on different artistry and transition skills, all NC needed to do was jump jump jump and he’ll win… at the very last, fans don’t like him because he openly used his influence to express dislike towards Chinese policy. But about Patrick Chan, I think most of the Chinese fans do like him… at least I do lol.

[@emilywei5391]

In addition, Queen is usually only used for Yuma Kim haha, just like the west. However I do feel super exposed as a Chinese figure skating fans😂 y’all did so well researching this😂

[@lisanna8205]

I do agree abt. NC. His scores have been recalculated by experts and too many times they were inflated dye to clear ISU reasons...if Yuzuru Hanyu had been American, his way would have been full of gold medals and all deserved. About Patrick Chan, he was a super champ..

[@FigureSkatingFan]

A few months ago, we saw a Reddit post "Do you know Eteri Tutberidze is called Instant Noodle Sister" in China? We were immediately intrigued and amused. As we read more, we realize Chinese fans really like giving nicknames to celebrities based on their characteristics. Why call Eteri Noodle sister? You might have guessed it instantly. And what other funny / interesting nicknames do they have for our favorite skaters like Yuzu? Nathan? Zhenya? Sasha? Anna? Alyona? Javier? Shoma? Want to find out? Or want to learn a few Chinese words? Join us for the Premier of this super funny Chinese nicknames introduction video, premiering on 18 December, GMT 12pm ^^ **Special Feature: When Katniss Everdeen and other **#Hollywood** Stars found out they have a Chinese nickname..**

[@felcityhe1058]

Fun fact: In China, biaojie 表姐 is viewed as someone who is very cool. Chinese people think that JLaw is cool so they call her 大表姐。

[@dennnisliberta2243]

anya's nickname is mostly from her elegance and modesty. also千 means thousand and 金 means gold so it could also be referred to since Anya has collected so many gold medals.

[@youxianl5216]

我们Alena的中国粉丝之前讨论过的关于飞天的英语意思"Feitian" is derived from a Chinese idiom, which means to surprise everyone with talent and proficiency, at someone's first attempt at something.

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Wow thanks for the information. But we wonder why this nickname is not given to Sasha instead if it’s about someone’s first attempt to do something..

[@youxianl5216]

Figure Skating Fan , 当然萨沙也有中国的昵称比如“海豹”我们觉得萨莎的脸肉嘟嘟的非常可爱。“特鲁索夫”是指莎莎的难度可以当大鹅的男单一号。还有Elizaveta Tuktamysheva 中国冰迷称她为“et”，还因为她是大龄女单的骄傲亲切的称她为“姐姐”。

[@youxianl5216]

Figure Skating Fan 更正一下Elizaveta Tuktamysheva关于“姐姐”这个昵称她以为长相比较像中国演员蔡明被称为“蔡明姐” 金妍儿之前翻译为金延娥中国冰迷亲切称她为“盐鸭”。还有 浅田真央 Mao Asada 因为mao的发音和中文猫非常想冰迷们亲切的称为“猫”“猫酱” Carolina Kostner“鸡姐”，因为一次服装很像火鸡 ️ 所以得名鸡姐。 Petr Gumennik “鸡弟”因为长相酷似Carolina Kostner。

[@FigureSkatingFan]

@you xianl 太佩服中国冰迷的想象力了！中文昵称真是美妙啊！应该被当作文化遗产！真太强了！每个字都好像一幅画，我一看过头脑就可以想象了哈哈！💕

[@youxianl5216]

Figure Skating Fan 还有很多运动员都有中文的昵称

[@colleenm9188]

Thank you for posting this! It was so entertaining and fun!

[@ruoyunwang9101]

你知道的太多了🤣 I laughed so hard, even though I’ve already known their Chinese nicknames. You explained them clearly so that our foreign friends can understand what they actually mean. TBH, I’ve never realized that Chinese fans are so creative and so mean lol

[@gbting1988]

As a Chinese figure skating fan, finally I know where is Nathan’s nickname coming from. Haha

[@angeljordan4337]

This is very rare that people of China loves very much Yuzuru which is Japanese, i just watched internet recently, one Japanese famous director had pop up "the gay issue" toward Yuzu, but you see, i am so surprised that so many hundreds people in China defend Yuzuru, my goodness...am so happy for Yuzu, see..not only Japanese fan, Chinese Fan also are the biggest fan of Yuzuru! 羽生加油↖(^ω^)↗，我们很爱你! 🥰💖💖💖❤❤

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Yes it's quite interesting seeing how Chinese fans defend Yuzuru. We also see a lot of Russian / Spanish comments in supporting of him too. He is that good that people forget about his nationality and just support him regardless. As for the gay part, haiz it's really sad and many of my Japanese male friends also told me the same - like he's so gay, this sport is for ladies not men. If a man does it they are mostly gay blah blah blah.. I'm for LGBT community but frankly this stereotype is so annoying~

[@class6aa]

I think Japanese sportsman who have express respect to the Chinese and do not comment on Chinese politics are generally well received in China. Like one of the retired Japanese Table Tennis pal her is also quote popular

[@whaleblubber4333]

@@FigureSkatingFan >I'm for LGBT community but frankly this stereotype is so annoying~ lolol many of us in the lgbtq+ community have an issue with these stereotypes too, everyone loses from it~ 😔i hope people can just stop connecting unrelated things to sexuality someday

[@emmekalin]

宇野的收銀台讓我笑死XDDD

[@beepbeep670]

I’m a Malaysian that sometimes swarm among Chinese fs fandoms. We also call Ghislain 大熊da xiong (big bear)! HAHAHAH they are hilarious

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Haha interesting! So you guys associated him to Big Bear right after you saw him?! So funny haha 😂 I really wonder how Ghislain will react to this name if he finds out one day.. 😜

[@beepbeep670]

@@FigureSkatingFan this gotta be so adorable

[@beepbeep670]

Adding on some😂 we call Nathan 三水 or 淼or 火箭for the inflated scores too😂 and also his program

[@FigureSkatingFan]

@@beepbeep670 Ehh... 火箭 ok, that's the nickname for his rocketman routine. But 三水 or 淼 are both quite mean don't u think?!..

[@beepbeep670]

@@FigureSkatingFan very ：/

[@yuzubij2998]

Yo I was surprised with LWJ and WWX pairs program there 😂😂♥️

[@tolkienesque184]

Where was that?!

[@joanm7045]

oh you guys found out our secrets🤣🤣

[@MD-me9ok]

I absolutely love figure skating and yuzu is just my comfort go to BUT I LOST IT WITH THE UNTAMED SOUNDTRACK PLEASE

[@yanange]

I'm from Hong Kong! It's amazing you have put in so much "life" in the names. You've really brought out the idiosyncrasies in the names! Loved the instant noodle name for eteri. Well she cycles her skaters so quickly; the name is suitable!

[@mandyzhang3141]

Chen has another nickname in china “Chen 淼”，means too much water ，水 is water，淼has three water in Chinese character.🥵

[@王梓善]

水 means the inflated GOEs XD

[@jennyt1206]

Let me clarify, we also have Chinese nickname for each of Yuzuru’s costumes and programs just because we love him so much.

[@bb__v2452]

Could you please share some of the nicknames?

[@jennyt1206]

@@bb__v2452 1. Custom of notte stellata -> dà bái ér / big white swan 2. Hope and legacy -> xiáo jiú / little nine. Because the color of this custom looks similar to color of one of the most famous nature reserves in China - the “Valley of Nine Fortified Villages”. We also refer the 2017 WC FS as the miracle created by Little Nine cause Yuzu created an extraordinary miracle in the FS. 3. Let me entertain you -> Yuè Yuè. Yuè is one of the characters of the Chinese word happiness, and we want to refer the program and the custom in a cute way, so we repeat the same character twice. 4. Lets go crazy -> zi fēng / purple crazy. 5. Haru yo koi -> little Sakura.

[@lisanna8205]

@@jennyt1206 great!

[@estherzhang5875]

Shoma got his new nickname recently, 铜雀台, which is similar to collect silver machine (收银台) but it’s changed to collect bronze. And it is quite a archaic expression

[@hollabackinsanity]

I love Jin Boyang's nickname (Tiantian) the most, but i think it's his irl nickname and not the one given by fans, per se? Nevertheless, it sounds SO CUTE. What an amazing video, TYSM!

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Yes Tiantian (Sky) is a nickname given by his parent. They initially wanted to name him "Jin Tian" instead of "Jin Boyang". So it become his nickname and the fans call him that too.. That's why we didn't include that in the video haha :P But yes we love this nickname of Boyang too!! 💓💕

[@greathan9360]

eeeeeeeeeeee bilingual chinese people watching this get twice the fun... like me! HAAHAA

[@FigureSkatingFan]

:D YAS!! These Chinese nicknames are like.. genius!

[@МаринаРадовелюк]

A really well done video, nice transitions ;)

[@FigureSkatingFan]

LOVE Your comment :)) We are like the Jessica Chastain in 1:48 -- Finally someone gets us 😀💕

[@МаринаРадовелюк]

@@FigureSkatingFan ahahha, and that's true.

[@saion5553]

Didn't expect such a video would exist and being popular lol!

[@saion5553]

飞天这个昵称在她升上青年组之前就有了啊，有一种说法是她滑行很舒服跳跃也高，还有一种说法是她小时候滑过飞天小女警但似乎已经被证伪了

[@saion5553]

Here's an interesting list of nicknames for girls in (or used to) the "Snow Leopards" club in Moscow, Russia (where the coach Svetlana Panova is called 锅巴姐): ◎太小姐，旧庄主，也叫前世庄主，玛索，Maria Sotskova ◎前大小姐，歪歪 (because of the bad axis of her jumps seasons ago)，Anastasia Tarakanova。歪歪先投奔面姐，又转入普皇门下 ◎二小姐，Anastasia Kostyuk ◎三小姐，Ksenia Sinitsina ），也叫sin宝 ◎四小姐，Daria Zubanenko ◎五小姐，Alena Kanysheva ◎真六六，Larisa Labustkaya ◎真命六，也叫真六六的，真六小姐，名叫Anastasia Shabotova ，也叫举八，或者叫沙波娃 ◎假六六，或者赝品六小姐，新六六，Anna Frolova ◎小七，美丽的七小姐，Anastasia Zinina ◎七丫鬟，或者七婢女，Elizaveta Safronova ◎八妹，八小姐，是个小布丁，Viktoria Sinyavina ◎表小姐，Anna Kuzmenko ◎表二小姐，名叫Ksenia Tsibinova ，也叫她土司娃 ◎六丫鬟（主流点叫六婢女），名字叫Elizaveta Medvedeva ，因为姓氏是梅德韦杰娃，所以六丫鬟也叫小梅娃 （reference: www.bilibili.com/read/cv1266328）

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Wenjie Dong 哇！原来还有这么多！几乎好像选手全家福了😱🤭

[@uwuxian8572]

love the use of wuji and zhou shen in the vid 👀 great explanations!!

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Love ur nickname ~uwu 😆💕

[@miat1329]

As someone that is Japanese I thought the Chinese fans might call Hanyu San something along the lines of wings bc of his insane ability to jump but laughing cow lmao I love it

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Yeah quite unexpected for us too 😂

[@yukishiro3287]

The "Ha" from my understanding is because phonetically, it's probably quite close and has a cute laugh so called him "laughing cow", though, as explained in the video, it's more about how great he is

[@dhwanzietiwari52]

The untamed theme in the background 💓

[@Yidenia]

Fei Tian is also the Chinese word for "Apsara", a sort of buddhist/hindu goddess/fairy that can fly.

[@Azeneesen]

Thank you for this video, it was very interesting!

[@magkal8690]

It,'s interesting the reason why they give nicknames to foreigners...As we, with european roots, can't sometimes pronounce the names of some Asians,for the Asians might as well be hard to pronounce names from outside their regions...so, they invent nicknames...

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Yes you are so right. Also, Chinese is like a pictogram language. 1 word can have a lot of meaning. Normally they just need 1-2 words to describe whatever they wanna say. Their names also have a lot of significance on their characteristics. English / Latin names are driving them crazy so they invent the nicknames.. Which is kinda genius :)

[@magkal8690]

@@FigureSkatingFan Chinese are well known for their inventivity. But, what I don't understand is why is harder for Europeans to remember their names, ( this goes for the Korean names, too) formed only by three syllables ? It must be linked to how our brains function, or it's just a matter of culture...

[@FigureSkatingFan]

@@magkal8690 The reverse is also true :) I had a Chinese friend whom I was doing language exchange with. I remember there's once I wrote "I just like ice skating" to her. She told me it's too long, she can't remember at all. When I translated it to "我喜歡滑冰“, which means the same thing but to me it's way longer and tedious to write. But she replied, "That's better". That kinda opened my eyes. The thing is, everything takes practice. Our brain has the tendency to reject something we are unfamiliar with at first. It takes a lot of persuasion and practice to train our brains to understand totally new things (apply to both languages or skills). But once it gets through the initial hurdle, everything will be better. My take is, just read more Chinese/Korean/Japanese (If you are interested) and don't be afraid even if you can't remember, then you will find it easier to remember...

[@magkal8690]

@@FigureSkatingFan Quite true. It's exactly as for the faces. I mean, an european ( caucasian) can't make the difference , at the first glance, between asian faces ( or african) , but, with a little bit of will and practice, can teach his brain to recognize between those faces. And I guess it goes the same for Asians and Africans with Europeans.

[@FigureSkatingFan]

@@magkal8690 Yes you are so right. When we first published a video about Nathan and Yuzu's sportsmanship: kzbin.info/www/bejne/emiTe5yKhKqUack There was a comment saying he couldn't tell the difference between both Yuzu and Nathan as they look exactly the same to him. Some of us really thought he's being racist for saying that. Then when we published another video about sportsmanship best and worst moments: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5jGmIiNfpubhqs Someone messaged told us she couldn't tell the difference between Nancy & Tonya. She wanna know who hits who as she's confused. At that moment we suddenly realised the first person who comment he couldn't tell the differences between Yuzu and Nathan, he's not being racist. He probably really couldn't tell the difference. I suddenly recalled the first time I watched Korean Drama years ago, I also couldn't tell who is who. So, perhaps we could all make this world a better place with a little bit of understanding about each others' shortcomings and differences :)

[@abygailcelestine6939]

curreently trying not to laugh so i dont wake my parents up-

[@FigureSkatingFan]

HAHAHAHAAH OMG!! I laugh so hard at your comment! 😂😀

[@6Euphoria6]

Shou Yin Tai 🤣🤣🤣 that play on pun is everything cuz it sounds like radio channel LMAO

[@andreacoronadotorres3760]

Yuzuru TE AMOOOOO!!!!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@rosarivera979]

Gracias por este entretenido video Yo en lo particular nombro a Hanyu Yuzuru Él Príncipe del corazón inquebrantable Él Bello y Dulce Ángel del Hielo. Él Valiente Guerrero con Alas. Incluso mi teléfono móvil los tiene registrados.

[@FigureSkatingFan]

¡Todos los apodos que le dieron a Yuzu son tan hermosos! 💓💕

[@cherrynguyen7218]

Gosh, the Chinese really have some good taste since they actually notice that one “Pirate of the Caribbean” from Javi. I mean, look at 13:38

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Ikr! Surprisingly Chinese fans seem to have good taste for figure skating!!

[@cherrynguyen7218]

@@FigureSkatingFan they really do tbh. I’m a huge fan of that performance from Javi and sadly it’s not as popular as Man of La Mancha or the others

[@EricStinehart]

I LOVED this video - please keep posting ones like this + updating this in the future!! 😃 很棒！

[@FigureSkatingFan]

😍😂🤓 okay! We will try :)) there are so many funny Chinese nicknames.. will think hard for a new storyline to introduce more nicknames 😉

[@omyogagal]

Boy do I learn a lot by watching this. Now I can decode when seeing Chinese fans posts :)

[@FigureSkatingFan]

YES!! We are glad to help :)) Coz Chinese Weibo always have those livestream :) Many people told us during this Japanese National livestream that they could recognize many Chinese words after this video. And we are so happy to hear 😆💕

[@paolala]

I LOVED this video!! and calling evgenia medvedeva "the star of the stars" made me love it even more, cause so true

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Haha She is. She is truly the star of the stars.. She was the one who paved the ways for the young skaters now! If not because of her early success, maybe a lot of young skaters wouldn't have a role model to watch and to be inspired with. Even Alina said it herself in one of the interviews in the early days.. We simply wanna give credits where it's due :) 💕

[@gdaliahushtirmer1612]

great video

[@mimifredes6894]

good video👍🏼🖤

[@umrgaming269]

THE UNTAMED OST IN THE BACKGROUND YESSSS! I KNEW I'VE HEARD THAT MUSIC SOMEWHERE BEFORE

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Haha the best Chinese drama OST perhaps :P

[@WingedDusk]

Анна Щербакова "девушка из богатой семьи" не потому, что она из богатой семьи (с большими деньгами), а потому, что она ведёт себя как аристократка, у неё очень утончённые манеры. Как будто в самом деле благородных кровей.

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Да. Анна такая классная. Мы любим Анну. Ее следует называть «Благородной». 💓

[@bazita024mocho7]

Как фанат юзуру в китае, я бы сказал, что китайские поклонники называют её «дочь» не потому, что она из богатой семьи, а потому, что мы считаем её очень красивой и элегантной.

[@fairlymoon448]

All the AI's are super hilarious as well. Eteri team pancake name is hilarious. Nathan deserves his nickname. lmao. I just love that yuzu is so loved. Great video!!

[@florinalin4189]

宇野的收银台可能要多一个铜雀台了哈哈哈哈

[@FigureSkatingFan]

桐花台比较有意境哈哈哈😆

[@ruoyunwang9101]

@@FigureSkatingFan 重点在“铜”🥉哈哈哈哈，桐花台也是甄嬛传来的吧🤔

[@brettshair3151]

Javi and Nathan deserves a better nickname y'all Can someone make a nickname on Nathan's hair?

[@FigureSkatingFan]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.. I couldn't stop laughing at the Nathan's hair part!! Yeah that's really his signature!! ^.^。。。。

[@chunghuey113]

OMG this is the comment I'm looking for. Yup my sis call him 额头一卷毛 (Curly hair on the forehead) and in OG2018, when Nathan cut that curly hair on his forehead, she's so sad saying.. "Where's that hair?" :P

[@brettshair3151]

@@chunghuey113 I honestly love Nathan's hair especially after seeing it in one of aeterniti's 2018 Olympics videos! That nickname your sis gave him is so cute!

[@chunghuey113]

@@brettshair3151 Haha! And she's so happy recently coz that hair of Nathan is back and stick around in the recent competitions. She's like - Please don't cut into that hair style into OG2018 again. That hair (Especially that curly part on his forehead) seems to bring him good luck and makes his programs look so cool!! :D

[@coolgirl312]

Lol I grew up in a chinese speaking household and I have heard some of these names here and there and always wondered how they came about. It's so creative and some of these have so many layers but they all oddly make sense xD

[@BP-xv7fj]

17:36. Omg the Chinese literally says he ranks no.3 so we call them chen three.

[@karenhuang8161]

hahahaha!!!!! As a Taiwanese, I found this LOL!

[@FigureSkatingFan]

😝

[@aaya195]

somebody pls lemme know who made that fanart (0:50) for Yuzuru

[@eleonora1]

bro I was not ready for wuji

[@Fanyu_1111]

Can you introduce the Chinese nickname of each costume of Yuzu😆

[@MsDestructiveDrunker]

Yuzu's face in 20:57 is so cute

[@yukishiro3287]

I swear Chinese people really gave fun way to give Chinese nicknames. I live in Canada and the nickname given to him is small potato because his last name sounds like potato (tudou in pinyin) and since he is the son of ex-prime minister, he is added the nickname small since he is "potato son". Our school's name is sometimes wrongly written from "beuf" (last syllable of the name) to "bœuf" meaning beef. Because of that, some Chinese people calls our school "beef school"

[@ummuilham3119]

Mmmm.... Sudah penasaran ingin tahu .... Gemes....

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Datang balik dalam 2 Jam :)))

[@nadiahDono]

Figure Skating Fan woaaaaaa is that malay??? 😱 you know malay??

[@FigureSkatingFan]

@Nadiah Dono Yes I learn a bit of Malay before. I can't really say I know. Mostly I rely on Google Translate haha 😂

[@nadiahDono]

Figure Skating Fan aaa no wonder. 😄 I thought the admins were among Malaysian/Indonesian community just now. That got me really surprise cuz figure skating is not a thing here in South East Asia. 😂 well i still enjoy watching it even though I never experience winter

[@FigureSkatingFan]

@@nadiahDono We are really surprised when we first saw the comments from Indonesia a few weeks ago too. Also Vietnamese and Thai. It's really nice to see figure skating as a sport picking up in tropical countries! We really hope one day Figure skating will become a popular sport all over the world. And the top skaters like Yuzu / Nathan etc will be as famous as other sportsmen like David Beckham, Messi etc. They work so hard and they really deserve more recognition :) Please continue to watch figure skating and support the skaters :)

[@minus21334]

Qian Jin 千金 actually has different context, the fan gave Anna this nickname as she's their precious darling.

[@6Euphoria6]

I love YuZu's nickname YouZi. It's so cute!

[@withlu3180]

Actually sometimes fanyu calls him 牛哥. 牛means cow,in Chinese,it also means awesome.哥means older brother.Because hanyu sound like 哈牛.

[@samidaretsuyu6073]

Chinese fans call Koldaya "可达鸭"（Ke Da Ya）,which is the chinese translation of Pokemon "Koduck". They also call him "鸭鸭” (Yaya, means "duck")

[@TheJelleviA]

Great video. I’m curious if Jin Boyang also has affectionate nickname among Chinese fans?

[@FigureSkatingFan]

Boyang is called Tian Tian 天天 (Sky, or everyday) by Chinese fans. It’s not a name given by fans but his parents. Coz his parents initially wanted to name him Jin Tian instead of Jin Boyang. So the fans just call him by this name :)

[@TheJelleviA]

​@@FigureSkatingFan Great nickname, 天天 Means good too, Golden Sky (If I heard it directly maybe would've thought they called him 甜甜 XD) Thanks for the info