Liyue Locations: Pronunciation Guide (Genshin Impact) 

Liyue characters pronunciation guide: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p10yiwULJA8.html I stream on Twitch at www.twitch.tv/ying More fine-grained timestamps are in the description, here's some high-level ones: 00:06 Introduction 00:53 Location names 07:08 Character names I missed last time 07:57 FAQ + notes 11:10 Thank you + outro I'm glad y'all found the last video so helpful! I tried to break down the sounds a lot more slowly and carefully this time, please let me know how well it works for you! :D Also, I got a lot of requests for a character name meanings video, lmk if that sounds interesting to y'all and I'll hop on it woooooo

Me imitating Rhodeia while fighting her after learning the correct pronunciation: "An assassin from our homeland? Or a fool who trespasses upon the waters of 𝓠𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓬𝓮✨?"

I used to say “Coochie slope” instead of cuijue slope

Qingce village: 0:55 Dihua marsh: 1:45 Wangshu inn 2:17 Guili plains: 2:49 Qingxu pool: 3:00 Yaoguang shoal: 3:42 Guyun stone forest: 3:47 Wuwang hill: 3:56 Liyue harbor: 3:59 Mt. Tianheng: 4:05 Lingju pass: 4:09 Dunyu ruins: 4:13 Tianqiu valley: 4:46 Nantianmen: 4:52 Mt. Hulao: 4:57 Huaguang stone forest: 5:03 Qingyun peak: 5:07 Jueyun karst: 5:11 Cuijue slope: 5:19 Mingyun village: 5:43 Mt. Aocang: 5:47 Luhua pool: 6:33

As a Chinese myself, I confirm that Chinese is both a beautiful and adorable language, basically Japanese but in all Kanji XD Also, for those interested, try Genshin in CN original, you won't regret ❤️ Edit: for those who don't understand why I said 'Japanese but in all Kanji despite not having the same pronunciation', it's because Chinese uses all hanzi (Kanji in Japanese), while Japanese has hira and kata, and since most hanzi and kanji have the same characters, Chinese is basically Japanese but all Kanji (in this case, hanzi) (the languages are not similar tho!) , whereas Japanese has hira and kata to make the language more beautiful and stand out 💕

As a Japanese person playing this game since its release, it's interesting to see how these places in Liyue are pronounced in Mandarin. Funny story is that lots of Japanese people are struggling to read names of the places or weapons in Japanese because Genshin uses Chinese characters that are not really familiar to Japanese people 😂

You're a godsend when it comes to fully understanding these pronunciations!

I'm a linguistics minor, and it was cool hearing you talk about Chinese dialects. Something we discuss in our class is how some dialects are only called so for political reasons and should in fact be different languages, and sometimes the reverse is true, like the fact dutch and German are technically dialects of a single language but for political reasons we call them different languages

my Chinese name is 馨妍, pronounced xīn yán, and I never checked xinyan's Chinese characters or pinyin so ive been pronouncing it like my name this whole time xD man if only the yan in her name was 2nd tone

out of all the places in Liyue, i only got one right, stone gate

Me as a French person trying to pronounce these: "wait, this is the easiest thing ever"

Being the only Chinese speaker and newest player in a friend group that goes hard on Genshin makes me feel weird for pronouncing the names correctly 💀💀 I’ve been hearing the non-Chinese pronunciations and not knowing what anyone was talking about for like a year, and it feels kinda wild, especially since I told myself I wouldn’t touch the game with a 10 foot pole for the sake of my wallet and sanity Dropped that sentiment like a hot rock two weeks ago . v .

On top of everything, this also helps me appreciate the Liyue landscape and how each location has its own aesthetic and beauty.

Its kinda cute that both Liyue and Mondstadt's name is related to the moon

On why JP VA pronounce CN names differently: Japanese has mainly 2 ways of pronounce Kanji, one is kunyomi ie. read as original Japanese. another one is onyomi ie. read as if its Chinese. However, onyomi still sounds different from modern Chinese pronounciation is bc onyomi follows ancient Chinese pronounciations which close to the dialects spoken in southern China nowadays.

Oh my archon!! Your smile can light up all of teyvat! Just seeing it and feeling the positive elemental energy you give off while doing these pronounuations has made my day better 😃

I'm a multilingual speaker (born and raised in Europe, with chinese parents) and have the game set in english, and it was super nice finally knowing what the actual names are!! (just for reference, I've been saying 望舒 as 王书 😂)

Omg, so I was not hallucinating or anything when one day I opened the map and realised Mt. Aozang became Mt. Aocang XD was confusion

If only Chinese teachers were even a fraction as nice as you AHH

I love these. Absolutely find these fascinating. I find myself trying to pronounce these correctly while playing. My friends never understand when we play together 😄

THANK YOU for this video, the way you explain pronunciation and provide examples and extra cultural information is so interesting and helpful, i love your vids ♥♥♥ also, as a native polish person who's fluent in english and loves studying languages in general, it's been super interesting trying to compare the sounds in polish and chinese, i feel like some of the words might be easier for us to pronounce than they are for native eng speakers (we do have a lot of sh, ch and j sounds in polish and i think they're still less complicated than the chinese ones but they don't exist in english either so explaining them to people is always a pain lmao) anyway, thank you sm for providing us with this opportunity to learn sth cool and i hope you have fun exploring inazuma

when people say, keking, songli, kiki, kay-ah, and singkwee (xingqiu) it makes me-

I think the point you made at the end about the variation in pronunciation in Mandarin is very important for everyone to understand, especially because the existence of "tones" may lead people to believe that pronunciation is more set in stone than it really is. "Standard" Mandarin is sort of like received pronunciation in English: it's mainly important for news broadcasters. I play with the Chinese voice overs and even though it's mostly "standard" pronunciation, there's still a certain degree of variance depending on the VA and the character. As someone with a similar background as you, it's very cool to see someone taking the time to point out these nuances in language that can't quite be conveyed in the romanization, and I think a follow-up on name meanings (a lot of work, I know) would be awesome.

Names in simplified Chinese: 0:54 Qingce Village 轻策庄 01:44 Dihua Marsh 荻花洲 02:14 Wangshu Inn 望舒客栈 02:49 Guili Plains 归离园 03:00 Qingxu Pool 青墟浦 03:42 Yaoguang Shoal 瑶光池 03:46 Guyun 孤云 03:55 Wuwang Hill 无妄坡 03:59 Liyue 璃月 04:06 Mt.Tianheng 天衡山 04:10 Lingju Pass 灵矩关 04:14 Dunyu 遁玉 04:45 Tianqiu Valley 天遒谷 04:52 Nantianmen 南天门 04:57 Mt.Hulao 琥牢山 05:02 Huaguang 华光 05:07 Qingyun Peak 庆云顶 05:11 Jueyun Karst 绝云间 05:19 Cuijue 翠玦 05:43 Mingyun 明蕴 05:47 Mt.Aocang 奥藏山 06:37 Luhua Pool 渌华池 07:08 白术Baizhu，辛焱Xinyan，烟绯Yanfei，甘雨Ganyu

I love the energy. Thank you so much for all of the effort you put into this.

When you need to learn the pronunciation for a game.

When Inazuma comes out, we’ll need a Japanese Ying 😂

Yeey! My Xinyan its here~ Thank you for doing an update, i was searching her in the other video you made.

Thank you so much for this. I have a liiiittle bit of experience with mandarin pronunciations from some videos I've watched, and I was pretty close on quite a few of these! Still, there are a TON of little things and techniques to say them truly right that I got COMPLETELY wrong... And in some cases, a few bigger things. This was extremely helpful, thank you again!

I remember hearing that the different dialects of Chinese could be considered separate languages because a lot of them are mutually unintelligible like Wu and Yue dialects.

I’ll never forget clicking on your channel after seeing the liyue character pronunciation guide and then clicking on a stream highlight where you called beidou bidoo

Thank you really much! Since Sinology is my major in university, I don't have any problems pronouncing the Mandarin names as a foreigner, but I really appreciate that you're helping other people!

Your videos are extremely useful to me; one way they stand out from other Chinese instructional videos is you are able to convey the principles of the phonetics in a way (at least for me) that is easy and fun to understand. thank you so much

Let me add some explanations to the names. 0:54 輕策 means light brigade. Also it shares the similar sound with Clear water 清澈. 2:15 望舒 means "In search of comfort." A suitable name for an inn right? 2:49 歸離 The first word 歸 means "return" and the second word 離 means "leave". It's a special combination of words in Mandarin that when you combine two opposite meaning words, you keep the meaning of the latter one. So 歸離 means "to leave." 2:59 青墟 means "Ruin of moss". 青 means green or moss. 3:42 瑤光 means "Pleasant light." 4:05 天衡 means "Emperor" and "Heavens." 4:09 靈矩 means "Enchanting measurement of force." 4:15 遁玉 means "Escaping Jade." 5:12 絕雲 Actually means "Cloud's end." 5:18 翠玦 means "Jade" or "Green gem" 5:44 明蘊 means "Clear mine." 5:47 奧藏 means "Mysterious treasure" 6:46 Luhua 淥華 means "Clean water and Flower." 黃龍 means "Yellow dragon." 7:10 白朮 Is a kind of Chinese oriental Herb. 7:36 辛焱 means "Spicy and fiery." 7:40 煙緋 means "Vermeil smoke." 7:44 甘雨 means "Sweet rain" or "Timely rain."

English isn't my first language but the way you explain the sounds and give examples really helps!

chinese is SUCHH a fascinating language. i'm a spanish speaker and i feel like it slightly helps pronounce some of the chinese names because of our pronunciation of our own words, so when you would explain how some of the words were supposed to sound, i kinda got it! our alphabet is basically the same as english except for like 2 letters. i one day want to learn a language with completely different alphabet from english/spanish. it seems a bit difficult to me but maybe i'll be brave enough one day to do it!

No wonder this randomly popped on my recommendations and I'm glad I watched this to pronounce these correctly. Looking forward for more of your uploads!

Me, not knowing chinese with a somewhat proper pronunciation of everything in the game: this is easy Cuijue Slope: Allow me to introduce myself... Damn, I wasn't even close to that one.

That “ Also known as DPS QUEENNNNNNNNNN”. I loved that 🤣

Love your videos with these. Pronunciation and acknowledgement is so important!

I saw your characters video a loooooooong time ago and I check some of your work sometime. I didn't know this one, but RU-vid just suggests me this. Thanks a lot

I see that almost every name on liyue has "cloud" in it, now the name "sea of clouds" makes sense

And then we have Keith Silverstein who admitted “LiYue” is the hardest word for him, but he just say like any other non-Chinese speakers: LiWei 🤣

Nice was hoping for another one of these pronunciation videos 👍🏻

Thank you so much for making this video !!!! You have helped me so much, with both this video and the last one you made

My husband is Japanese and he cannot stand when I watch folks on RU-vid butchering pronunciation of Inazuma names and places XD I'm trying to get him to make a pronunciation guide video. He doesn't play Genshin at all but I think that would make it all the more amusing.

You're a really good teacher! The way you broke down Qingxu Pool by telling us to take away the diphthong at the end of the word "shoe" helped me understand how so many other words are pronounced! Including "Liyue" (by dropping the second part of "way") 😁 PS. I actually teach English as a second language to Chinese students. As a language teacher, just hearing someone use the word "diphthong" got me excited 😅

Tysm for making this! It’s Very helpful!!

thanks for clarifying the japanese nanori versions of the liyue names! as a Japanese language student i appreciate it

Furiously studying this video, thank you for another one of these!

omg i never had to say any of these names out loud so i never rly considered what they would sound like THIS IS SO COOL

I'm getting so many positive vibes from a single video. THANK YOU AND LOVE THE VID 😍💖

I LOVE THESE PRONUNCIATION VIDEOS SO MUCH

I just love her voice.

I was just thinking about a pronunciation guide for the locations as I was rewatching your first video lol thank you for this it's really helpful!

wow I have been curious about how to say these names and I am so happy that I now have a better understanding of them! Thank you so much !!!!

THANK YOU!!!!! Super helpful! You are really good at teaching pronunciation! (and very articulate) I'm studying foreign language(Spanish, Japanese, ASL, and hopefully soon to be Chinese) so I probably appreciate this more than the average person, but you won my like and subscribe :D

I actually found myself laughing coz i've been reading it all very far from what it actually sounds like lol Thanks for the A+, Ying! Good job too!! See u on your next stream ❤

Honestly, I adore these videos. I was taught Mandarin from ages 5 through 10, until I moved to a school that taught a different language. Its been over ten years now, and this game has reawakened memories for me and reignighted a passion. I'll admit to watching these videos a handful of times, partially because my Chinese teachers haunt me in the back of my head about inflections and tones, but also because of those nostalgic memories.

Thank you for this video Ying! I'm a Chinese - French (so Chinese born in French) and I only speak in dialect (Teochew dialect to be precise) and I have a heavy accent when I read in mandarin, so you help me a lot for the pronunciation ! :D

Thank you so much for doing such an informative video! It's very pleasant to listen to your well structured presentation.

I've always wondered why Paimon would pronounce "Shouri" everytime, thank you!

Right out of the starting gate I greatly appreciate your comment about tonal systems. I've been really concerned about that. I took three years of Japanese in high school and I know they're not the same language at all, but I know tone and inflection and the like were really important when differentiating between words for desk, edge and bridge for example.

Thank you for making these videos and taking the time to teach us! ^^ ✨

Thank you for making those guides. You've won a subscriber today. :) I don't know anything about (Mandarin) Chinese (and other dialects) but I really like linguistics in general and I try to pronounce things the way they are supposed to be in their native language as much as possible. Salutations du Québec (en français)! / Cheers from Québec!

Whenever I forget the pronunciations or to check myself to make sure if I’m saying the names right, I come to your channel (it’s so helpful so I thank you for taking the time to do this 🙏☺️)

I used to say Wuwang Hill as "Duwang Hill" for unknown reasons.

I'll be rewatching this video for a whole month to get the pronunciations right😭 I already learned to say all Liyue character names correctly and it feels amazing to have learned that, thank you!!!!☺

i've found this so coollll! love your videos

*This is mainly for the comments section* there are literally 50+ ethnic groups in China.... each most likely has its own differences let alone the different languages in the country. *for Ying* Thank you for making the tones really clear... I've just started my mandarin journey (while keeping my Japanese) and you make it really easy to hear what tones you are using.

I'm here more for "laughing at how wrong I've been" than "Learning Chinese For Real." No one I know plays GI so I don't have to worry about embarrassing myself with Sheeng-cho on Gwee-lee Plains!

Love watching this! Glad it came up on my recommendation. ✌🏼❤️

This is SO helpful. Especially with the guide on where to put tongue in the "sh" and relating to when making ur sound. You rock

4:46 I just call it 'thank you valley'

Mandarin sounds so pleasing to the ear... almost melodic. It's beautiful. Thanks for these guides. I was especially surprised by how similar the first syllable of Ningguan is to the way we Italians pronounce the "gn" ("voiced nasal palatal", as in "campagna" which means "countryside"). I would have never guessed from the way it was transliterated. Maybe the hardest thing for an Italian speaker in pronouncing these names is to remember that the "i" is actually voiced, like in Xiang Ling

THANK YOU!!! You made pronouncing these so much easier. ;w; I was having a bit of a hard time with pronouncing certain words, so this really helped out!

I give you an A+ & a comment for RU-vid's algorithm! Thank you for making great content.

Thank you so much for this! I learned a bit of mandarin when I was in beijing, and I like to think my pronunciation is pretty good. But no one ever explained to me the differences in regional dialects which made it frustrating trying to sort out the differences with how my friends pronounce things as they are from different regions. The way you explain these differences were so clear and explain so much. Thank you again soooo so much!

This was so educational thank you 😊 I’m learning Mandarin (and also love Genshin) and feel like you gave some great advice ❤️

glad found your youtube channel 🤩✨

Thanks so much for this video!! It is so helpful

Went to school at 北大 for a year and a half, and I got really particular for accents/pronunciations; yours reminds me a lot of my teachers'. You're such a great teacher for native English speakers :)

Thank you so much for making this, as someone who's trying to learn some Chinese this is great.

got a sub from me ,. i think i stumbled upon one of your vids about character names, didnt know you had more vids about Genshin! anyways just love hearing you speak!!

I came intending to learn a bit about the pronunciations, then I also found you to be quite the lovely and pleasant person ^^

thank you for making a part two! as a filipino and a tagalog speaker, I naturally default to “how it’s spelled is how it’s pronounced” when reading unfamiliar words. Qingyun like king-yun, jueyun like juu-yun, and nantianmen like nan-shan-men. but when I watched your first video on this topic, my friends and I always try to pronounce it in proper mandarin as much as our tagalog tongues and “hard enunciation” would allow us to. excited to practice speaking this next time my friends and I co-op

It's funny how "Qingce Village" in Spanish is "Aldea Chingtsé", this name being the closest thing to its pronunciation in its original language ^^

Thank you for this video! Very helpful 🙌🏻

Congrats on getting Kazuha! and thank you so much for making this video!

As a northerner I appreciate your interpretation on the accent differentiation, despite it was a little bit exaggerated (like the diphthongs). Overall this is a brilliant video! Keep up the good work!

Thanks for this! Ever since I watched your first pronunciation video, I've been trying to say Liyue the correct way (almost every day lol). It's still hard but I'm getting there. Trying to stay true to the shift in tones is difficult but I think it's cool. Chinese is beautiful. Appreciate you taking the time to break it down for us!

I keep coming back to your videos because I hate not being able to pronounce names properly, and your explanations are better than some language instructors'

Thanks so much! Really appreciate it! :)

A guide that is vital for every Genshin streamer. I stg if I hear Qingce being mispronounced as "jingse" again my language tic is going to lose it. XD No seriously though, as a Mandarin learner, thank you!

I love this but... where is the patch for our beloved prankster Hu Tao? I guess Yaoyao could also be included since she is rumored to come in 2.1 and we have an official art of her.

Man am I ever glad I've tried for a long time to pronounce words that aren't in English right. Most of the stuff you said is hard for English speakers to say I already have heard so many times and replicated that it wasn't too hard on me!

this helped me understand a lot of pronounciations of common things i often see written in pinyin. i don't speak chinese at all nor am i learning but this is helpful for so many things even outside of genshin!

I nailed the americanized pronunciation of these with only knowing the x and q pronunciations just from hearing chinese in asmr videos lmao. Only a couple of em was I off. I really appreciate this video because now I can be confident in how I pronounce them. 😁

Yay, a follow-up video! Thanks so much for the time and effort spent recording and editing. It's great for learning, and I'm glad to be able to get at least 90% of the way saying it correctly.

Language is fascinating AF. Thank you for these guides. I will probably still butcher most of these words, but I do love having a better idea of what I should be aiming for!