Summary: Learn how to write & pronounce the Chinese symbol (character) for soccer in this free Chinese language lesson on video.
"Now we come to the Chinese word for soccer, or football in British English, zu qiu. Ok zu in Chinese it means foot, and qiu is ball. So just like English football, zu qiu in Chinese. This is zu and we know that zu can also become a radical, this is the word, this is the character to, but when t becomes a radical, you need to pay attention to the last stroke, the last two strokes, this left falling comes a vertical strokes, and the right falling stroke becomes horizontal. So this serves as a radical that is used with another part, to form a character. Ok back to zu qiu, ok lets practice writing it again. This is left falling, this is right falling. Zu qiu, football."