Liyue Characters: Pronunciation Guide (Genshin Impact) 

THANK YOU, For pointing this out. I have met FAR too many people in co op thinking Genshin is a Japanese game and shitting all over the Chinese voice acting. Thank you!

@@annalise9011 oh god thats so cringey 😭

what's the dIfFeReNcE? /s

@@annalise9011 "Shitting all over the Chinese voice acting" That's just stupid, the original Chinese dub is arguably the best- in my opinion, by far! The voice acting is very well done. Those who say that it's bad are either not used to hearing Chinese being spoken, or are just ignorant racists.

@@michaelkimmm 😦

Here comes the moneyyyyyyyyy

You mean mora.

Malaysian: cat (kucing) And it fits her appearance too since she has 2 cat ears hairbuns.

@@KingGaki738 kucing hahahha

@@KingGaki738 omfg yess xD

I'm pronouncing it shnezhNAya as a russian, since it is the name of the region and not some kind of characteristic

@@mitsunikolee это ошибка перевода, гений

@@Natalia-mj6ee ахахахха, перевод названия региона в игре с выдуманными названиями

@@moratakki В любом языке даже у частей слова имеется логика, поэтому удивляться очевидной этимологии пусть и выдуманных названий выдуманных мест глупо 🤔 Аналогии в игре предельно четкие, присутствует множество заимствований из реальной жизни, даже сам Тейват и его культура построены на культурах наших, Земных народов. Поэтому использование русской, французской, японской и прочих лексик не является чем-то из разряда вон выходящим... Притом, правильность тамошней фонетики может отличаться, это правда, но насколько мы видим на китайском примере - у них отличий нет, поэтому можно сделать вывод, что это просто орфоэпическая ошибка.

@@olehoole4418 чилл, это просто игрулька, я не записывался на допы к преподавателю этимологии

Thank you for your hard work! Do you process audio for all languages or each dub has their own people working on it?

true I watch some people play with the english dub and I hear some characters saying 'lie-yeah'

Yeah my name is Yue and people keep saying it wrong

Normally you pay a phonetics expert to explain the pronunciation to the actors, not just the crew memebers ☠

@@tgl.9078 judging by how no one ever bothered to inform Childe’s EN VA that the G in Tartaglia is silent, EN dub is just not of great importance to the Genshin team.

I'M SORRY HAHAAHA;KLSDFJ

don't worry, this is me on every Chinese class

Don't wrry i suck at chinese too I struggle with it Can't even understand-

Just assume the "U" in Yùe have umlaut instead. A weird sounding umlaut "U".

Hahahah

Me: a chinese *Also pronounces everything wrong*

Me an asian and learns Chinese since kindergarten: Me: All pronunciations wrong-

You commented that with your pfp rn is perfect

@@nevermindthat6 relatable.

is that a saya pfp

I'm glad another person noticed this. The tone sandhi wasn't really explained, but I wondered if that was just me being picky when I'm not even a native Chinese speaker.

Fortunately the tone irregularities in Chinese are very few, apart from the 3rs tone rules, there are only 2 other rules that can change a tone and they only affect the words 一 and 不

Where does the ь go?

@@slaviclad2972 it was more of a joke about how foreigners have a hard time telling the difference, but sure

@@slaviclad2972 nah man all good

Snezhnaya has Italian names so far from what I've seen

Snezhnaya will be half italy half Russia i think

I'm actually so damn excited for more regions to come out and hopefully we'll get lots of pronunciation videos to follow !!!!

I'm doing the exact same thing.

Bro you really steps up on language games 😂

this is more relatable then living

MEMEMEMEMEMEME

🥺 I'm so glad genshin has made it fun for you!!

Same pain

Are you using English Audio or German?

😂oh shit ich spiel das game mit japanese dub ich frag mich wie die das dort ausprechen werden

@@timduncan9372 English, the game only offers 4 languages and none of them are Deutsch.

@@S1152NA hab ja noch die deutschen subs darunter Hatte einfach keine lust auf englisch haha Aber denke mal im japanischen wirds das nicht so flüssig sein

i thought it was pronounced like "chong-yoon" lmao

@@Happyfeetlily same

@@Happyfeetlily that sounds korean omg😂😂😂

@@Steambunbun I mean hey, a least I now know how to say it properly!

@@Happyfeetlily same here- and I probably won’t change-

We have other dialects too tho :< As a Cantonese myself I find Hokkien dialect hard to pronounce

PH which has 111 or more dialects:

Cantonese has 6 tones tho- I am from Canton(GZ) so I can tell lol

@@chuwanning1421 maybe we know different dialects? my dad side is from the guangzhou area but my moms side is from hong kong

@@saltysnowbrid 粤语九声六调

mihoyo: kaching *shows tons of money*

or, lighting mcqueen references. KACHOW.

No its Catching.

Cat

Kerchoo

i just finished the story then i realized that he can create mora wtf

John lee is best character

Only as long xiao and dainslev are not released haha

@@dsalainti So he invented Money and counterfeiting as well? Lol

child is also may favorite he's really cool character and I like he's story of him protecting he's little brother

I hate you for making that joke. Take your damned like.

tbh the liyue names are pretty hard to rem-AMBER

Why did I read that as Zhongli's heavy attack voiceline

“hyuh hyuh hyuh” IS SENDING ME

FISH SHELL

I’m officially gonna call him that now thanks

I CALL HIM THE LITTLE BLUE TWINK

“The water sword twink” is also 100% acceptable

I call him Cabelo Azul (Blue Hair) 😂 Will try to remember the right pronunciation now

I called him water boi 😂😭

KEKW ING

lmfao john lee

Which is kinda sad since they don't even bother to do a little research on the names, they're content creators and will influence a lot of people, making the people who watch them also mispronounce

And my ears hurts hearing it, despite not being an ethically chinese, lmao

Fr, it made me cringe hearing them 😭

John Lee

i call him john lee and say it’s a joke just to hide the fact that i can’t pronounce his name 😭

Chun Li

this isn’t funny actually and it’s actually kinda racist (John Lee is the same)

😐

bwahaha lmao same but from spain

Me, a Czech: Laughs in Ň

Laughs in Filipino

And Beidou is barely different from saying it in spanish, too!

We'll laugh even more when the fire nation comes 😈

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

kiki

I don’t speak mandarin but it’s still painful to hear 🥲

Some people say her name like that?!

@@CloudyCoraYT Yes its painful

*the time to shine has come*

even this early they’re already pronouncing fontaine wrong lol

@@shadycactus6146 I learned French in elementary school I would pronounce it fun-ten is it correct?

@@angie0430 my french is pretty rusty, but i think it’d be more of an o sound in the first syllable, like how an english speaker would probably read it. the second syllable should sound like “ten” though, yeah, which is what they’re messing up in-game

Ah yes, my quebecois ass will laugh at the Americans when French names come and they just butcher them

A japanese dude in a parallel universe: Shine Lucc

Because your luck dies after you got him

@@hornitako7006 that's fuckn correct my dude

Its how they pronounced it in korean dub and i just picked it up 😬😬

I say "Die Luke" as a joke with my friend my name is Luke so saying Die Luke was funny

LMFAO HELLO ARUVN HAPPY TO BE OF SERVICE

@@ying_verse Currently in GI hell so this was very interesting!

@@Aruvn YOU PLAY GENSHIN? I never expected to see you here woah woah woah (love your work btw)

HOLY HI ARUVN

UUUOY KNAHT

Yes

Same lol

Well I’m already Chinese lol

Haha… *remembers my school test being near fail…*

Did you got it right?

sidebar, reciting these as you said them was so fun fslijleisjlefijs i grew up with spanish and english so as you can imagine the mouth sounds are fairly different

@@grannys_sinister_corn_matrix Ahh I'm so glad you had fun with it!!!!!!

Really a great video made for ppl interesting to learn Chinese. It's become more interesting when being incorporated with game characters. ^.^

In russian it's "Син Цю" - "Sin Tsyu"

@@haykor7165 That's actually not that far off from the actual pronunciation

I cannot tell you how many times I want to strangle someone for pronouncing it as “Sing-kwee.”

LOL HES THE ONLY ONE I CANT SAY

I know how to say his name Bc I always say it, I main him aswell LOL

sHiAoW

@@user-eq2tp1gz1r Lee-yuhWay

You mean the one in English? Well, yeah, none of the English vas know Chinese

If it's about en voice it's understandable They localized it so it's easy to understand

My biggest pet peeve is that different voice actors pronounce words differently. I've heard at least three different pronunciations of Liyue in the game

BIDOOOF!

tectone?

That surely must have pissed you off...I get turned off too as well when content creators mispronounce key terminologies even if I don't speak the language.

@@rosaria8384 no im uhhh im fine with it though... i feel like im not in the position to get mad cause im not chinese, you know what i mean??? xD

I've heard one said "Bye-Doo" 💀

再见 to you my friend

i don't even know what i just read

@@smievil It means bye

ah yes, noodle language

@@veniwotwotii3936 再见我的朋友

I'm stuck calling Keqing as KeKing because of Sykkuno's streams................

I pronounce her name as "kuching"

@@cat-chy6134 It mean "cat" in Indonesia or Malaysia lmao,its really suit because she have cat hairstyle

I've been laughing at this for five minutes now... help me

@@cakephone7893 in Phillipines, it means kitten which is a baby cat

absolutely !! I remember my friend guiding me there when I unlocked it, it felt absolutely unreal

and the music just ties it all together

YESSS! I stared at Liyue for a while when I found it. I got to Liyue harbor at nighttime which means it had all the pretty lights on and I was like soooo shocked!!! ^-^

It was nighttime when I unlocked it and omg it was gorgeous

I felt what you felt but with Wangshu Inn lol (at that time I didn’t know Genshin world is sooo big I thought only monstadt is there)

the big man himself JOHN LEE

that's his straight-up 4kidz name oml

and this is why my friends and I call him johnathon leeward.

@@Scrofar dude yeS

I pronounce it as it is spelled 💀

💀oh gosh

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

4kids dub : WRITE THAT DOWN!!! WRITE THAT DOWN!!

its jonly

John Lee sounds like your local small town insurance agent

Thats big storyline itself just by their name.

Truly. Then there's Beidou's name wherein the character for bei means north and the dou means fight but when joined together becomes the Chinese name of the Big Dipper asterism of the Ursa Major constellation which fits very well thematically with Beidou herself portrayed as an eye-patched naval captain or admiral with profile, talents and constellations related to ocean and navigation. 😃 edit: As Vitstaya below pointed out. I got confused with the meaning of dou. If Mandarin Chinese tonal is taken into consideration, the 'dou' in her name is pronounced in the 3rd tone (dou3) and the closest translation of this is cup / spoon / dipper and thus Beidou literally translates to 'Northern Dipper'. The 'dou' that means to fight or struggle is pronounced in the 4th tone (dou4). These 2 variations have the same Simplified Chinese character but dou4 would have a different form in Traditional Chinese.

@@Sarutobi-xd4pw beidou mean "the North star"

@@nguyenquanghung2344 North Star / Polaris is 北極星 (Beiji xing). Her name means Big Dipper 北斗七星 (Beidou Qixing) or simply 北斗星 (Beidou xing). edit: I may be wrong with the North Star being 北極星 in Chinese as that would be a literal translation of North Pole Star. But 北極 (Bei3 Ji2) is its own asterism in traditional Chinese astronomy and Polaris is not one of its stars. In the traditional Chinese star map, Polaris is 勾陳一 (Gou1 Chen2 Yi1) "Curved Array 1", the 1st star of the Curved Array asterism the Hellenic counterpart of which is the Little Dipper asterism of the Ursa Minor constellation (小熊座 lit. 'the little bear constellation').

@@Sarutobi-xd4pw maybe we need someone to clarify this term. Im used to the word Bắc Đẩu (北斗) as North star in my Vietnamese language, this make me confuse since Big Dipper in Vietnamese is Đại Hùng (大熊) :)))

I'm Chinese myself and watching this video to see if I pronouns them right And yes I suk at Chinese tq @Maou Sama

@Maou Sama I know

I've always known the pronounciation but not the tone of the words.

I pronounce xingqiu, keqing and chongyun wrongly as 星球，可晴 and 重运 respectively

bilingual really helps cause you have a better range of pronouncing stuff~

HE REALLY IS SUCH A GOOD BOY

Razor and Xiao are best boys

i pronounce razor as razz-or

LOL but you'll be close now!!! I believe in you!!!!!!!!

it takes a long while to pronounce chinese properly. i speak chinese ethnically and i still cant pronounce it properly xd 18 years and ongoing

That's so true about changing. You really have to keep saying it to someone who can correct you because it will start to slowly become less accurate until it's way off the next time you hear it said properly. This happened to me every time my friend taught me something. 😂

You ain’t alone. My Chinese artist friend- just lost hope for me :,) because I keep pronouncing the names differently each time.

me too, i'll just feel more guilty

Now I shall imprint this mostly useless on daily life knowledge into my soul. Thank you. I just love how many Asian names have meanings. I wish we had it in Brazil :(

@@hydra2295 SABE COMO?Cara eu sou um chines que mora no São Paulo!!Eu amo Brasil!O Brasil tem uma cultura rica e única, só precisa de alguma atenção e desenvolvimento.Good to you mano!

imma tattoo Xiao's name.

Very fascinating! Thank you for the insight, this was cool to read. This game has actually been making me want to start studying Mandarin more seriously, I just worry it will completely throw off all my Japanese studies lol I recognize a lot of Kanji but of course, the readings for Kanji barely ever line-up with the original Chinese. Even the "On" readings which are supposed to be based on the original Chinese readings for the Kanji. But I see myself playing this until the end... so I figure it probably wouldn't hurt to learn more. The main issue of course is not having any friends who speak the language, which makes it way harder to actually learn. But oh well.

Thank you so much I enjoyed reading your comment very informative and educational.

Ñ is really easy, as a Filipino.

ikr 👁️👄👁️

I only know how to speak English but Ningguang was the easiest for me to pronounce

Indonesian here, also having fun on saying her name, so easy lol

que onda mi pana

mee - 6 years of compulsory putonghua babey 🤙🤙🤙

Years of me failing Chinese going to finally improve

> 6 years learning Chinese in elementary school I may not be fluent enough, but I still can remember how the pinyin works imo

SAME,, i live in a hispanic neighborhood so everyone speaks some varient of spanish. and i have the curse of having no interest of learning spanish

yess

I say baid-o

I see that you're a man of culture as well

*bae doe

*Captain Thighs

Bro my little brother always call her bytheway

"Can I eat you yet Paimon.........."

God damn it, that song is stuck in my head now >:(

It's impossible for me to read that line without thinking about Snow Halation anymore

zonkli :v

you don’t know how much I, a chinese person, appreciate you for this hahaha

@@updated_autopsy_report I really don’t understand why people give a damn.

@@tjailinht9412 why are you so angry?

@@tjailinht9412 I’ll try to explain it- you know that lady who pronounced microwave as meecrowavé? the first time you hear it you might find it funny or ignore it, but if you keep encountering such strange mispronunciations everywhere you might start getting quite tired of them. especially when it doesn’t take much for the speakers to find out how it’s actually pronounced(since people say it so much, you’d think they’d at least search it up), and the fact that large content creators are influencing a lot more people to say it wrong is quite frustrating

also me: forgetting all the pronounciations

Ikr. But then again i live around chinese people so it's familiar

samee

same

Same

Jaja me to but only in a few of them.

可能是这个姐姐太可爱了

@@yihongguo90 wow so perseptive huh?

你们都是来看美女的哈哈哈

检查一下自己拼音学没学好？（逃

叉着腰看完整个视频

No wonder i feel like i've seen them before. Electro hypostatis bugging my mind.

Goddd i hate those. Took me five tries to finally kill one.

@@bellehelene9250 try switching to Amber, charge shots, she destroys him in one go. You don't even need to level up, you need her in the end to kill the three particles. This works because you need the elemental reaction and not damage. I think Bennet should too. Or you can go superconduct instead of overloaded, but it's somewhat slower.

@@alexeeenkov I used both Diona and Amber. In case one dies. You're right I think superconduct takes a bit longer. I also learned a neat trick from someone else. You can attack it in the center while its shooting lasers coz the core will be exposed for quite a long time. I didn't realize that coz I only dodged the lasers back then. It helped reduce the time.

@@alexeeenkov you get xiangling pretty early on, theres no reason to use amber for the hypostasis. just make sure her Q is up at the end, drop her E on one of them and use the burst to take out the other two

Mihoyo introducing new area with new culture: Hahah now suffer with the rest of the plebs

Inb4 they add the other five nations with all the new cultural aspects 😂😂

@@corndoghead1 honestly I’m rly happy they’re bringing in a bit of some cultures around the world it makes the game more immersive imo (and it’s cool seeing them too, super excited for the fantasy versions of the next nations :)) )

@@potatolover4580 can't wait for France-

@@ap0llogetic427 I'm so excited that it's gonna be ongoing for a few years so I'll actually stay interested

You got it!!!! Good ol pattern matching hahaha well done!!

same here

whenever I'm asked to say a chinese word I know I'm too shy to say it scared that I might say it wrong-

your comment made me realize I've never said Qingxin out loud :o

Chinese is pretty easy to pronounce once you know how words are romanized, but fuck its convoluted

LOL It's so true

I’m crying because I used to love listening to the philosophy he had.

Same. I mean you can hear it in game in the profiles so.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Beidou means the constellation Big Dipper which is more commonly describe tgt wth the word qixing(七星）as in Beidou+qixing(北斗七星) but she isn't one of the qixing members, i wonder why.. some more her ship crew is named the Crux, the opposite of the Big Dipper, one at the north, another at the south😕❔ No one asked but i wanted to put this out for a long time

Some also call her Bae Dough

@@tedykar1121 oml LOL bae dough

Big brain

Main reason i don't wanna delete any languages yet just to try this

I started off playing it in japanese because several of my favourite anime VAs voice characters in the game and I wanted to hear them, but at some point I decided I wanted to hear the game in its original intended language so I switched it to Chinese but I'm planning on doing the same thing when we get inazuma!

Bruh I do the same thing

Mondstat is apparently supposed to be based on German culture.

HEKP THIS COMMENT IS UNDERRATED

@@lucalucanightfever *Bakugo is no longer bakugo*

He ain’t broke, he just doesn’t bring money