I am from China, and here's some pronunciation tips for my name --- Peizhao
Ou --- in Mandarin Chinese:
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Unlike English, the Chinese language is based on characters (each character
is mapped to a syllable).
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The family name is before the given name, and in most cases the family name is
the first character, and all other charaters together represent the given name.
- Based on the above, my name should be "Ou Pei Zhao", which is a
one-to-one mapping from each charater to its syllable.
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"Ou" is pronounced as the English word "Oh" --- my family name.
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"Pei" is as the English word "Pay"
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"Zhao" is like "jow" (the 'j' is pronounced like the 'G' in "George", and the
"ow" is like the "ow" in "wow").
Thus, people usually call me Peizhao as "Pay-Jow". However, you could
improvise.
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