User:大始王皇

My primary activity here will be adding the Wu pronounciation for Chinese characters, in IPA, latin alphabet, and Zhuyin Fuhao. Also if i have time i might add Zhuyin Fuhao for mandarin too.


 * - a sound between English eat ad it
 * AFAIK, is pronounced exactly as  in RP.
 * - a vowel not easy for English speakers
 * The “French ‘u’”, identical to the long pronunciation of the German Ü/ü (umlauted ‘u’), as in.
 * - as in English it
 * Agreed.
 * - I don't know this one
 * The labialised version of ; i.e., like the English consonant ‘y’ (as in yet: ), but with the lips rounded as with ‘w’.
 * Indeed. If it helps, . (It's the &lt;u&gt; in French lui:, cuir:.) —Ruakh TALK 14:53, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * - depending on English dialect as in bet, but English doesn't really distinguish between and.
 * The first vowel in the diphthong in (pronounced ); identical to the French É/é.
 * - a vowel not easy for English speakers
 * Per the Scandinavian Ø/ø and the German Ö/ö, as in Søren Kierkegaard and.
 * - depending on English dialect as in bet, but English doesn't really distinguish between and.
 * Hippietrail is right; the sound is identical to the French È/è.
 * - as in English the
 * That is somewhat ambiguous, because can be pronounced as  or . This is the sound of the wholly-unstressed forms of English’s ‘a’, ‘e’, and ‘u’ (though  is also common for an unstressed ‘u’); e.g., ,  , and.
 * - for English speakers, this would be hard to distiniguish from.
 * This is the pronunciation of the German syllabic ‘r’, as in the final ‘-er’ of, , and.
 * - for English speakers, maybe hard to distingish from.
 * In RP, the first vowel in the emboldened diphthongs of  and  . Many dialects pronounce  as ; however, it is pronounced as  in RP. IMO, the confusion can arrise between  and, but not between  and.
 * - as in English father, but for English speakers, maybe hard to distingish from.
 * Correct, but the distinction should not be difficult for speakers of English.
 * - as in English bought, for British or Australian English speakers also as in English port
 * More like bought:; also, in RP, the first vowel of the emboldened diphthong of boy:.
 * - a difficult sound for English speakers
 * If you look at the Vowels chart of this page, you’ll see that the sound is somewhere between, , and.
 * - for American English speakers as in hot
 * I thought Americans pronounced hot: as … In American English, is the first vowel of the emboldened diphthongs of boat: (RP: ) and join: (RP: ).
 * - as in English put, but American English speakers may pronounce this more like.
 * In RP, put: is indeed pronounced as . This is the sound for the English “short ‘u’” (o͝o); contrast.
 * - a shorter version of the sound in English news
 * news: is pronounced as in RP. Think of the o͞o sound of the word shoot:.
 * - as in English
 * 〃
 * - as in English
 * - as in English
 * - I don't know this sound.
 * Per the ‘h’ of the Czech pronunciation of the word háček: . This is the murmured form of, kinda like the English ‘h’, but “breathier”… (Sorry to be vague!)
 * - as in English
 * - as in English
 * - as in English jump
 * Not strictly correct (the sound of the ‘j’ in jump: is most accurately repræsented by : ); see.
 * - as in English measure
 * measure: is, strictly speaking, pronounced as (or as, but the latter sounds very unnatural), but, nevertheless, it is the closest sound to  in English; it’s meant to be pronounced as a co-articulation of  and , but, as Hippietrail notes, that essentially renders.
 * &mdash; hippietrail 00:22, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * †  ﴾(u):Raifʻhār (t):Doremítzwr﴿ 19:29, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * - as in English measure
 * measure: is, strictly speaking, pronounced as (or as, but the latter sounds very unnatural), but, nevertheless, it is the closest sound to  in English; it’s meant to be pronounced as a co-articulation of  and , but, as Hippietrail notes, that essentially renders.
 * &mdash; hippietrail 00:22, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * †  ﴾(u):Raifʻhār (t):Doremítzwr﴿ 19:29, 3 December 2008 (UTC)