I think we need to update https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/names with a pronunciation column for the Chinese names (in the first column).
An exchange with the Chinese teacher about Foyan's name went like this:
I was looking at the pronunciation and actually the “an” should pronounce as “an” in and in British way, but it changes when it goes with “y”, and changes to “ian”, so actually it should be “yian” which sounds like “yen” a lot
And we don’t have the pronunciation of “r” in fo, so yes it sounds more like “fo yen” to me.
I know zero about how chinese pronunciation is written out... should we just use Google Translate links?
https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=%E4%BD%9B%E7%9C%BC&op=translate
In which case, shouldn't there be a Chinese character column too?
Or should the whole first column be rewritten like this?
Fó yǎn
Submitted May 06, 2021 at 07:03AM by ewk https://ift.tt/2RwneC9
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