How do you pronounce Kae's name?

[Goon1]

Me and my friend got into a heated argument and I was wondering how do you guys pronounce her name?
Do you pronounce it Kaw-E or just K?
http://www.strawpoll.me/11534845

[Martin]

Please pronounce oj names the Japanese way of pronunciation (in this case: ka-eh).

[Goon1]

SomeGuy712x eredeti hozzászólása:

I've been pronouncing it like the letter K, and voted as such.

While we're on the name-pronunciation subject, I'm curious how Hime is supposed to be pronounced. Should it rhyme with "rhyme" and "dime", or should it be said sort of like "he-may", or something else?

I think it's pronounced "he-may". Hime actually means princess in japanese.

[winter wave]

pronounciation doesn't really matter too much though

[Mechonis]

Kae = K

[ZenTori]

Anyone who can read katakana will tell you it's pronounced Ka-eh based on how her name's written.
http://puu.sh/s1cU9/be408c4c28.jpg
Notice how it's カエ

Mini-Japanese lesson
Japanese has the five vowels that we all know: a, i, u, e, o (in katakana it's ア、イ、ウ、エ、オ)
and they're pronounced kind of like ah, e (long e basically), oo, eh/ay, oh
And that's basically the basis for all the other characters when you put a consonant in front.
So putting the letter 'K' in front just makes it カ、キ、ク、ケ、コ sounding like kah, kee, koo, keh, koh.

You'll notice that the エ part is pretty much the same size as the カ in her name. This is important, because how the エ is written can affect the pronunciation, in this case showing you should pronounce each character separately.

Romanization of Japanese names will pretty much tell you how to say the names perfectly well because they simply spell out how you'd normally say the characters. Kae = Ka + e = Kah + eh

If her name was pronounced like K, her name would be more like ケイ, in romanji looking like Kei (and they might just change it to Kay).

So apply it to Hime and it's Hime = Hi + me = ヒ＋メ = he + meh/may
And yeah like others said, it means princess. Pretty fitting I'd say.

[UnLuckyCat]

Iridium eredeti hozzászólása:

Everyone else (except Marc) gets their glorious nippon names.

What, do you pronounce it like "Mark" with a hard c? Her Japanese name is マール, which is close to the French pronunciation of marc[www.collinsdictionary.com] the original language for what her name is based on.

[Iridium]

Precisely: as with Kae, the intended pronunciation of her name isn't too hard to figure out, but it's also extremely weird in English and it so happens it looks virtually identical to a very cute English name.

I know how they're actually pronounced, but I choose to ignore them in favor of something that sounds more natural to my friends with lower power levels who would probably otherwise wonder who the hell I'm talking about (though they're still weeb enough to pronounce Hime right, albeit possibly not Syura). Especially since two of them near-exclusively play Kai.

Another example of this that immediately comes to mind is Lucina from Fire Emblem, who is supposed to be pronounced with a hard C but I voluntarily ignored that in favor of what sounded nicer and more natural to me in English. Which later became the official English pronunciation, but admittedly that's for a mass-market product and not niche little oranges.

[Goon1]

ZenTori eredeti hozzászólása:

Anyone who can read katakana will tell you it's pronounced Ka-eh based on how her name's written.
http://puu.sh/s1cU9/be408c4c28.jpg
Notice how it's カエ

Mini-Japanese lesson :SD_Platinum:
Japanese has the five vowels that we all know: a, i, u, e, o (in katakana it's ア、イ、ウ、エ、オ)
and they're pronounced kind of like ah, e (long e basically), oo, eh/ay, oh
And that's basically the basis for all the other characters when you put a consonant in front.
So putting the letter 'K' in front just makes it カ、キ、ク、ケ、コ sounding like kah, kee, koo, keh, koh.

You'll notice that the エ part is pretty much the same size as the カ in her name. This is important, because how the エ is written can affect the pronunciation, in this case showing you should pronounce each character separately.

Romanization of Japanese names will pretty much tell you how to say the names perfectly well because they simply spell out how you'd normally say the characters. Kae = Ka + e = Kah + eh

If her name was pronounced like K, her name would be more like ケイ, in romanji looking like Kei (and they might just change it to Kay).

So apply it to Hime and it's Hime = Hi + me = ヒ＋メ = he + meh/may
And yeah like others said, it means princess. Pretty fitting I'd say.

Thank you for this informative post sir. I shall inform my friend and show him your post. : ^ )