Re: YAEPT: How you pronunce foreign place names

The tones are 4 and 1 respectively, i.e. high falling and high. It's a
rather common and standard name, which means "handsome and glorious".

2007/1/26, Steven Williams <feurieaux@...>:
> --- Kinetic <kinetic_wab@...> schrieb:
>
> > As an aside, I'm reminded of a guy I saw on TV
> > recently (on
> > the snooker) whose name was "Junhui"; they were
> > pronouncing it
> > /dZVN'wi:/ as far as I recall.  What's it supposed
> > to be, OOI?
>
> [d_z\Yn.XwEi]. I don't know about tones, though;
> Chinese given names can be pretty much anything...
>
>
>
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