A bit more trivia for you: the Japanese pronunciation is "go" for the same kanji. That sounds weird to you as a Mandarin speaker, but that is because kanji pro

A bit more trivia for you: the Japanese pronunciation is "go" for the same kanji. That sounds weird to you as a Mandarin speaker, but that is because kanji pronunciation is taken from the old Wu dialect. They call it "go-on" in Japanese, or "wu-yin" in Mandarin, meaning "sound of Wu". Apparently the W's often become G's in Wu (like the pronunciation for the number 5). There you go. As a Chinese, you can feel comfortable that the weird Westerners are still calling Go by its Chinese name.