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qī and sì sound nothing alike in any dialect of (Mandarin) Chinese I can think of, to Chinese speakers. Shi and shichi literally contain the exact same phoneme.
by dawnofdusk 3y ago
qī and sì sound nothing alike in any dialect of (Mandarin) Chinese I can think of, to Chinese speakers. Shi and shichi literally contain the exact same phoneme.
- arghwhat 3y agoSomeone unfamiliar with the languages might have thought that if they share the issue and even (within their phonetic limitations) pronunciation for the number 4 that this would also apply to 7, hence why I clarified that this was not the case.