csu-en I'd pronounce it. It is probably not right, but this is how I imagine it.
csu-en I'd pronounce it. It is probably not right, but this is how I imagine it.
I would pronounce it "ksu-en", that's how it's spelt... Why would you spell it with an X if you don't want it pronounced as one?
for my TTS is XUN
Shu-en. Emphasis on second sylable
The night is dark and full of terrors...
In English, X doesn't make a "ks" sound if it's the first letter in the word. It makes the same sound as Z, such as in xylophone.
(And yes, I'm aware that it's supposed to be a Chinese pronunciation, but I can't think of any word that starts with an X pronounced "ks" in English so all of the comments saying "ksu-en" are a bit baffling.)
Last edited by Rivin; 2012-09-05 at 07:39 PM.
This is pinyin latinization. Just so you know, there is more than one language that uses latin letters. For example in italian "ch" would be pronounced as "k" and "cc" would be pronounced as "ch". And if you think this is illogical, think back to english and how you pronounce "Knight".
The night is dark and full of terrors...
Based on the fact that it's a name from the heavily Chinese-based class/race/expansion, I'd say that the people who are either native Chinese or who speak Mandarin/Cantonese well and are all agreeing that it's "Shoo-EN" are the ones who have the correct pronunciation.
Remember, even though most of us speak English, that doesn't mean the name is derived from English and pronounced in an "English" style.
Hi I am a chinese from Singapore, long time reader of MMOC. There are 2 ways to pronounce this name depending on what Blizzard intends to use. There is no such word 'Xuen' in chinese pinyin, its either Xuan (玄) or Xu En (徐恩).
1. Xuan (玄) is pronounce as Sh-when, Shwen ~
2. Xu En (徐恩) is pronounce as "She (with lips forming an 'o')" "Urn (yes the vase)"
zoo-enn, I guess my ignorance is showing
I still haven't figured it out yet.
I'd go with zhu-en. Like Zha Zha Gabore.
Definintly NOT a kss sound, nor a hard Z sound (not saying that's accurate, just that it's what my brain natters at me if I think upon it at length).
Alright, how should I be saying Quilen? Something tells me I've been saying it wrong, too.
"Thank you" in Chinese is xie-xie (pronounced shay-shay). I'm assuming it's pronounced shoo-en.
Anyone else think Jaime Lannister only has the Kingslayer title because he was just too lazy to kill the king on heroic mode?