邓亚萍

鄧亞萍

Dèng Yàpíng

proper noun

Meanings

1 Deng Yaping
2 Chinese table tennis legend, four-time Olympic gold medalist

About Deng Yaping

born 1973 · 运动员 athlete

Table tennis player who dominated the women's game in the 1990s, winning four Olympic gold medals and 18 world titles though she was once turned away from a team for being too short. She later earned a doctorate at Cambridge.

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Examples

HSK 6

邓亚萍曾连续八年世界排名第一。

Dèng Yàpíng céng liánxù bā nián shìjiè páimíng dìyī.

Deng Yaping was world No. 1 for eight consecutive years.

HSK 7-9

邓亚萍是中国乒乓球的传奇人物。

Dèng Yàpíng shì Zhōngguó pīngpāngqiú de chuánqí rénwù.

Deng Yaping is a legendary figure in Chinese table tennis.

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history

After her playing days she ran 人民搜索, a state search engine from the People's Daily group, billed as a 国家队 'national team' of search. Renamed 即刻搜索 (Jike) in 2011, it never caught on and was wound down in 2013.

culture

When IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch presented her 1996 singles gold in Atlanta, he patted her cheek, a moment shown on Chinese television that many people still remember.

Stroke Order

邓 Dèng

亚 Yà

萍 píng

邓亚萍