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How do you pronounce the name 'Jiin'?

It's a Korean name. Korean senpais pls help.

December 18, 2015

5 Comments • Newest first

StapleMory

It's quit literal, actually. But I guess all you needed was a dash in there to make it "Ji-in" for it to be anywhere more obvious without straying from the standard romanization of Korean.

Japanese does this kinda stuff, too. Words like tooku (é� く), koori (æ°·), etc. I personally do not like the use of the extending accents on top of the vowels when romanizing hiragana words. I don't mind if it's a word that actually has that hyphen symbol thing (ã�'¼ï¼‰. Even for words like Seoul (souru) which is completely written in katakana, I prefer not using accents because the hyphen thing is not used in the actual spelling of this word (or is it; idk I'm not an expert on Japanese so I'm sry if I'm wrong and that the alternative writing is very valid). "Souru" (Seoul) is supposed to be ソウã�'« and not ソã�'¼ã�'« (I'm guessing, since I definitely see ソウã�'« more often; once again, I apologize if I'm wrong since it's only a simple assumption, but my point would still remain valid).

Also, tooku is supposed to be とã� く and not とã� く nor とã�'¼ãã€‚ As I've said, I'm not an expert on Japanese and maybe those spellings are actually valid, but I certainly do not like certain ways of romanizing this language, making it more ambiguous.

And god forbid if u actually use the accent thing for "susano'o".

I think senpai can be replaced with seonbae or seonbae-nim.

Reply December 19, 2015 - edited
GreatRomantic

You pronounce like "Jean" but you say it softer and quicker.

Reply December 19, 2015 - edited
Valykire

@ecyz: Since there is a second i, you're probably right about 지인

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lukiie

@ecyz: wtf - asian characters?! basil is doomed

Reply December 19, 2015 - edited
Ecyz

Is it 지인? Jee-een.

Reply December 18, 2015 - edited