Firefly Official Site
translations

Qi4 Hui2; Hui2 Qi4

• Simplified/Traditional characters: 汽回、回汽
• Back-translation of Mandarin: [?Steam Return]
• Context: Firefly Official Site, Visible Chinese, Spoilers page, on Cortex

qi4

[used only in compound words]: steam [noun]

hui2

to return

Su4 Huo4

• Simplified characters: 宿货 / Traditional characters: 宿貨
• Back-translation of Mandarin: [possibly abbreviation for transport of passengers and cargo]
• Context: Firefly Official Site, Visible Chinese, Show Info page, on Cortex

su4

[used only in compound words (or as a family name)]: overnight, to lodge for the night

huo4

merchandise, goods

Zai4 Zhe4zhong3

• Simplified characters: 载、这种 / Traditional characters: 載、這種
• Back-translation of Mandarin: Transport; This
• Translated from the English: Transport Class
• Context: Firefly Official Site, Visible Chinese, Features page, on Cortex with : FF : between the two words

zai4

to transport

zhe4zhong3

this, this kind of

1. zhe4: this
2. zhong3: [classifier for kinds/types]

Lan2ri4

• Simplified characters: 蓝日 / Traditional characters: 藍日
• Back-translation of Mandarin: Blue Sun
• Translated from the English: Blue Sun [new version (“Blue Sun” translation comparison)]
• Context (1): Firefly Official Site, Visible Chinese, Features page link, in downloadable Blue Sun logo image from 20th Century Fox
• Context (2): Firefly Official Site, Visible Chinese, Features page link, in video for fictional soft drink, starring producer’s assistant and official show blogger Kelly Wheeler [part of it was used in “Ariel” on the hospital vid-phone that Jayne used]

Lan2ri4

Blue Sun [name of a fictional corporation]

1. lan2: to be blue (the color)
2. ri4 [used only in compound words]: [traditional] or [meaning borrowed from non-Mandarin Chinese] the sun