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Summary: Learn how to write & pronounce the Chinese symbol (character) for relay racing in this free Chinese language video.
"Now let me teach you the Chinese word for relay, jie li. Jie li, relay this jie li is the same as we have for example relay race or relay swimming. Both are jie li, and jie means take from the previous one, take something from the previous one, and what you take is li. Li is something like the speed, or the power or the strength li. And as you can see the left part of jie is the hand radical, so we have the meaning part here, and the right part serves as the pronunciation part. Because its pronunciation is jie, jie very similar, and this is li. So how about we write jie again, this is complicated character. Here you need to make this horizontal stroke the longest in this character. jie li relay."