How do you pronounce Xuen?

[Veyne]

It's an American game, not Chinese.

Practically every Pandaren word spoken by voice actors in-game follows Chinese pronunciation. It's safe to assume Blizzard wants it to be based on Chinese.

[KrazyK923]

Practically every Pandaren word spoken by voice actors in-game follows Chinese pronunciation. It's safe to assume Blizzard wants it to be based on Chinese.

Except Taran Zhu is pronounced "Taran Zoo," which isn't correct if we're going by Chinese pronunciation.

Inspiration =/= direct copying

[Blufossa]

The correct pronunciation is like 'Shuwen'. There is no 'z' sound.

No, but then again, I'm not Chinese. :P

I called him "Zuen" because it sounds less retarded.

[Sandrox]

The correct pronunciation is like 'Shuwen'. There is no 'z' sound.

If its supposed to be pronounced that way, why not just spell it that way? English is so stupid.

Ive always said Zoo-En though.

[Deleted]

The correct pronunciation is like 'Shuwen'. There is no 'z' sound.

X is pronounced Z at the start of any word in English, so it's Zwen

OT: My friend used to call him "Khwan", he thought it was a Mexican word

[Zuben]

Kzoo-en./10chars

[iamthedevil]

Sha - WING!

[Kaleredar]

Shoe-en, with a faint "z" sound laid overt the "sh"

[Keosen]

ksoo-en i'm probably wrong though

[kcsaenz]

If only Xuen were real we could have the fun of watching him argue with people who think he is pronouncing his own name wrong.
I'm going to have to go with the giant glowing tiger and say its Zoo-en.

[Deleted]

Schwinn

which is close to my language and means "pig" xD lol

[Crixes1]

Its pronounced as Saba you fools! http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Saba

[Deleted]

Su-enn

Chineses translations are quite stranges, sometimes "X" has to be pronounced like an S and sometimes it has to be pronounced like "Sh"

Despite the game itself pronouncing it "Gzuenn"

I've always pronounced it "zoo-en" in my head because that's the English pronunciation. But Chinese transliteration follows different rules (I have no idea why), so it's probably something completely different.

Is it said by any VAs in-game?

In every language I heard X is pronounced S or Sh. English is the only one I've heard pronouncing it Z.

Also the game pronounces it Suen. X is like a soft Sh wich is close to S. Xuen itself is a westernization of the chinese word Xue Nu which means Snow Anger. Also don't trust what you hear from voice actors because the voice actor is not chinese so there's a high chance that he's not pronouncing it correctly.

Sinse it is a westernization I guess it wouldn't be wrong to pronounce it in whatever way it would be pronounced in your language.

This is a game where most races have their own made up languages, it's entirely possible that Blizzard made their own pronounciation rules when they invented the pandaren language.

Edit: LoL it's funny to see people from english speaking countries saying that pronouncing X like an S or Sh instead of Z is retarted when the english language is the only one that pronounces it like that.

[Scummer]

It's supposed to be pronounced "Shuwen", however I didn't realize that until I had already called him "Zuen" for months on end. I'm trying to train myself to call him Shuwen atm .

[Lord Pebbleton]

Xuen is a piece of cake in terms of pronunciation difficulty anyways.

How do you pronounce Y'Shaarj?

Mantids taught us it's pronounced "Ai Sharaai".

[Destinas]

X is pronounced Z at the start of any word in English, so it's Zwen

OT: My friend used to call him "Khwan", he thought it was a Mexican word

In English, yes. This is Mandarin Chinese in pinyin - romanized. So it's Shoo-en.

[ELYPOP]

So, if Xuen is pronounced suu-en, how do you pronounce Suen?

[Deleted]

Zuen. Dunno if its right or wrong though.

[PaladinBash]

Zoon. I don't buy into this 'sue-n' thing.

[hellosaltygoodness]

usually X in chinese transliterations is pronounced "sh", so i say "shu-enn".