Kelly Clarkson going through what every new Onces has gone through

I always thought its T-zu-yu

Saw this earlier and was giggling like a schoolgirl.

Omg yes, lmao. When I found out it was pronounced Chewy...

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Like....before you saw this clip? LOL

yeah

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I had one of the biggest sigh of relief when I found out I won't have to go through linguistic gymnastics every time I want to mention Tzuyu.

Still trying to figure out how the Yu in Tzuyu becomes a Wy sound.

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It's more like Tsu(as in tsunami sound) and Ee (as in feel sound)

Even stiil, how does the Yu become Ee?

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because its not yu, they just went it with since its the closest sounding

Just like DaHyeon is DaHyun

I get that for the Korean spelling, but it makes 0 sense when putting that in English letters.

Like 쯔위 should not be spelled Tzuyu when converting it to English. So not sure how it became that. Because Yu does not sound like Wy or Ee or even close to that, and Yu is not really the closest sounding.

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Let's just put it in the same word vault with the likes of colonel, Wednesday, bologna

Omg, yes. Spelling Answer and Wednesday was torture in elementary.

I still sometimes say Co-lo-nel instead of ker-nel when saying colonel too lmao.

i still always say zoo-yoo in my head and have to remind myself it's chewy

Lmao it took me some time too

Oh I didn't know it was pronounced Chewy!!!?

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I pronounce it how it's pronounced in Taiwanese Mandarin.

I've never thought of her in my head as the Korean version.

It's always the native tongue.

Is Tzuyu the closest English writing of the Taiwanese Mandarin pronunciation ?

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I'm not a native Mandarin speaker. Just studied a bit in college and forgot it all.

But Tzuyu is what I would consider the English approximation.

Ziyu is the Mandarin. (Less the intonations)

It's hard to represent it in a standard English way.

But here's a good pronunciation video.

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Right, this is indeed the closest !

Now that I think about it, if they didn't write Tzuyu for the official English spelling, I wouldn't have found out about Twice and would probably not be into kpop... crazy

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Right, this is indeed the closest !

Now that I think about it, if they didn't write Tzuyu for the official English spelling, I wouldn't have found out about Twice and would probably not be into kpop... crazy

How did that happen?

I do remember seeing this gif years before getting into K-pop tho haha

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I'm not a native Mandarin speaker. Just studied a bit in college and forgot it all.

But Tzuyu is what I would consider the English approximation.

Ziyu is the Mandarin. (Less the intonations)

It's hard to represent it in a standard English way.

But here's a good pronunciation video.

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Oh, interesting. So, the Korean pronunciation is different, but Tzuyu is not too far from the actual Mandarin pronunciation.

That's crazy. Wonder why they decided to switch up the pronunciation in Korean like that.

Chou ze/zi yu/yi is probably her Mandarin name

Chewy is how her Korean name is pronounced

I want to know her real name as in how people in Taiwan call her. Is it not Te zoo you? Or Soo yoo?

Edit: Never mind, Mina spontaneously scream her real name on that Swiss bridge, it is probably Chou Zoo You

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This gonna sound crazy....but... I forgot Tzuyu has a last name...LOL

I mean, no one thinks about Beyonce, Rihanna, or Madonna's last names either.

Legend behavior.

Lmao it really was an adorable voice

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I don't know the specifics of how they transfer names between languages. But I'm guessing it's the closest equivalent that can be found among the individual characters, maybe in meaning or sound or some combination. Not sure though.

I guess, but Yoo is a common last name in Korea. So I feel like that'd make more sense, but I just need to accept I'm never going to figure this out lol. Especially as someone who speaks neither Mandarin or Korean natively.