Asking for help from Chinese speakers/writers of chess.com

um, one thing is, in Chinese, we just put the Queen as 后 as the same as in chess. That's fine. But, that's the Queen piece; not the Phoenix-Empress. The two pieces don't have the same powers. (As a sidenote - after exploring my options, my final verdict was to discard '后' for the Phoenix-Empress piece. It looks uncomfortably similar to light Kingdom's foot-soldier/private in Xiangqi, '兵'.)

Agreed, although from a native speaker's perspective they are not the same, but we'll live with it.

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Phoenix凤凰but you can use both凤and凰to express the meanings. This came up during my brainstorm. However, I needed reference more to female ruler. The female Phoenix was simply a side-discovery, which I thought could potentially be a neat use.

Agreed.

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one thing. I recommend changing the 玛（Mammoth）into 猛 or 象since 玛naturally doesn't have anything to do with an animal. I wasn't using 玛. I used 獁; "猛獁" is the  (Woolly) Mammoth.

玛 is the simplified Chinese version of 獁

another thing. 蛇 snake is definitely NOT 它. 它means "it" I'm actually glad you brought this up. By literal translation, 它 does means "it". However, Chinese people also use it to mean 'snake'; which may be what "the evil 'it'" culturally refers to. It's a socio-linguistically acceptable shorthand for 蛇. That said, considering that my variant has Chinese mythological and war figures, I think there's enough given context for 它 to mean 'snake', not 'it'.

That makes sense, although strange to a native speaker, but I guess we'll eventually live with it. However if you really want to sound like a Chinese person writing this you'll find that it is strange.

Finally, it might be interesting to check out the wiktionary page for 它: "This character, 它, is a variant form of 蛇." 

Maybe in Ancient Chinese. I haven't checked.

final thing. 山 is definitely not the immortal priest either. it means mountain. I'm also glad you brought this up. 馬 does not by literal translation mean Calvary/Knight; it means 'horse'.

In Chess context we translate Knight into 马 as in Chinese chess. I am sure I can translate the same thing back.

Secondly, 相 doesn't mean elephant; it means "minister" (probably a sacred/religious one). However, there's enough context for us to realize that 馬 refers to the Calvary soldier piece, just as there's enough of it to realize that 相 refers to the Elephant piece. (When his royal excellency, the prime minister, had to travel to announce decrees to the Kingdom, or perhaps to answer citizens' cry for help, what animal did he ride on the back of?)

In Chinese chess we replaced 象 with 相 because THEY SOUND THE SAME. 

Whether we're pointing directly to the immortal man, 仙, or the mountain of which metaphorically represents the height/strength of his immortality, 山, I'm confident that there's enough context for 山 to refer to the immortal man. 

Again, That makes sense, although strange to a native speaker, but I guess we'll eventually live with it. However if you really want to sound like a Chinese person writing this you'll find that it is strange. An alternative would be 神 which basically means the same thing.

In Chinese King and Jade are not interchangeable. That's also what I thought. However, someone else who is much more proficient in Chinese told me that 王 wasn't originally King; historically going far back, it meant jade; somewhere later down the line, it served as a nice metaphor for sovereign ruling figures. Thus, 王 came to officially mean 'ruler'; and, by short-hand speak, "King". 

Most people, like me, doesn't know this, which is confusing. Although 王 and 玉 look similar, I would still recommend using 帅 since that's the traditional Chinese Chess black king name.

And again, if you check out the wiktionary.com page for 王, once again you'll find references to both "King" and "jade".