2006-10-30 08:16:55 · 7 answers · asked by Mulu H 1 in Sports ➔ Football ➔ Other - Football
The Chinese characters "zhu2 qiu2" (足球）literally mean "foot" "ball". This is similar to British English.
From Wikipedia, "Football is the name given to a number of different, but related, team sports. The most popular of these world-wide is association football (also known as soccer). The English language word football is also applied to American football, Australian rules football, Canadian football, Gaelic football and rugby football (rugby union and rugby league), and related games. All of these codes (specific sets of rules) are referred to as 'football' by their followers."
"While it is widely believed that the word 'football' (or 'foot ball') originated in reference to the action of a foot kicking a ball, there is a rival explanation, which has it that football originally referred to a variety of games in medieval Europe, which were played on foot."
2006-11-01 18:52:25 · answer #1 · answered by paul h 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the Europeans call soccer football could be the Chinese do too.
2006-10-30 08:19:08 · answer #2 · answered by antiekmama 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am a chinese and believe me we definately call football, football......Its the proper word rather than calling it soccer.....(^^,)
2006-10-30 20:59:28 · answer #3 · answered by Trice~ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no they have a chinese word for it
2006-10-30 08:18:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes, when translated
2006-10-30 08:18:35 · answer #5 · answered by spoof ♫♪ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they call it ching ching sissy ball
2006-10-30 10:34:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ya when they translate it
2006-10-30 08:19:08 · answer #7 · answered by Naman B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋