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As a Japanese, first we MUST stop pronounce Chinese names, both place and person, in Japanese on-yomi rule. e.g. Beijing(北京) is called "Pekin". Xi Jinping (習近平)
by hiroshi3110 7y ago
As a Japanese, first we MUST stop pronounce Chinese names, both place and person, in Japanese on-yomi rule.
e.g. Beijing(北京) is called "Pekin". Xi Jinping (習近平) is Shu Kinpei.
It always confuse me when first heard those name in English.
- ahartmetz 7y agoSo that might be why Beijing is called Peking in German... Although the (generally closer to original pronunciation) English romanizations of some Chinese names are becoming more common.
- Double_a_92 7y agoIt's called ~"Peking" in most European languages.
- 7FE1CCE3 7y agoMost of Europe probably got it from France, who used the Cantonese pronunciation: bāk-gīng
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- barry-cotter 7y agoWhy? You’re speaking Japanese, not Chinese, and all Chinese characters have onyomi. It’s like saying English speakers should call Germany Deutschland.
- apexalpha 7y agoDutch here, due to historical trade relations we also still use Peking!
- 7FE1CCE3 7y agoThat's how they pronounced the name of the city in southern China, which is where the trade started. http://cantonese.org/search.php?q=北京 http://cantonese.org/search.php?q=北京
- rswail 7y agoThe capital city of China is called "Beijing" in Mandarin and "Pekin" in Cantonese (as I understand it). The Western world's engagement with China was via Hong Kong and Shanghai, where Cantonese is the dialect.