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Thu Aug-25-05 01:25 PM
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| How is "Wu Zetian" pronounced? |
| Canuckistanian
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Thu Aug-25-05 01:27 PM
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| 1. I think it's "Woo Ze-chan" |
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If I know my Pin-Yin pronounciation rules...
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Thu Aug-25-05 01:30 PM
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| the_spectator
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Thu Aug-25-05 01:48 PM
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Totally useless! I wish everyone had stuck to Wade-Giles, which was so simple and phonetic, you could actually pronounce a word with a modicum of confidence!
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Thu Aug-25-05 01:31 PM
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it would be (I think) something like "Ooo Dz' Tyan"
no idea what the tones would be, that was years ago
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| NewJeffCT
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Thu Aug-25-05 01:35 PM
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| 4. is it Chinese (Mandarin)? |
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If it is, I'll ask my wife.
words ending in "u" in Mandarin are very hard for me to pronounce, as it is does not rhyme with "you" or "zoo"... my wife knows a professor at Yale with the last name Hu, and it is more like "huh", rhyming with "uh"
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Thu Aug-25-05 01:45 PM
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the only female emperor in Chinese history.
Pronounciation from my wife, I hope I did it ok.
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