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joshuaheard
on Oct 2, 2015
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Children of the Yuan Percent: Everyone Hates China...
I was told in China it was pronounced "wahn", so the title makes sense to me.
anonnyj
on Oct 2, 2015
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Eh, thats simply wrong though. Maybe it'd sound like that with a thick accent/someone who doesn't speaks putonghua well...
Either that or you're thinking of 万 / wan / 10,000
olalonde
on Oct 2, 2015
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It's more like yü-an actually (similar to how "u" is pronounced in French):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zh-yu%C3%A1n.ogg
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