红双喜

紅雙喜
Hóngshuāngxǐ
popculture

Meanings

  1. 1 Red Double Happiness
  2. 2 Chinese sporting-goods brand best known for table tennis equipment
  3. 3 popular brand of cigarettes

Examples

Guójiā duì bǐsài yòng de pīngpāngqiú shì Hóngshuāngxǐ de.
The table tennis balls used in national team matches are Red Double Happiness.
Wǒ bà chōu Hóngshuāngxǐ chōu le sānshí nián.
My dad has smoked Red Double Happiness cigarettes for thirty years.

Tips

culture
Two distinct famous brands share the name. (1) DHS (红双喜 / ) — Shanghai-based table-tennis equipment maker, official supplier to ITTF World Championships and the Beijing 2008 Olympics; equipment of choice for Chinese national-team players. (2) Red Double Happiness cigarettes — a popular mid-tier Shanghai brand named for the wedding glyph.
memory
'red' + 双喜 'double happiness' = the iconic red character. Add the colour to distinguish the brand from the generic decoration: a wedding has 双喜, but the table-tennis paddle says 红双喜.

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