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  • Capt. Wolf@lemmy.world
    33·
    4 个月前

    Exactly like Ryu and Ken pronounce it in the original game. Ha-doo-ken! Emphasis on the doo. Repeat until your best friend is dead and calls you a cheater. Move on to Mortal Kombat knowing full well you’re picking Scorpion…

    Edit: Hadouken spam for reference.

  • DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world
    11·
    4 个月前

    I’m seeing a lot of wrong answers, and as a native speaker, I must interject.

    How. Do. Ken.

    How do, Ken?

    Thank you.

    • spujbOPEnglish
      4·
      4 个月前

      is it second syllable that is accented? as in ha-DOU-ken kom-BU-cha pa-NER-a bread?

      • skulblaka@startrek.website
        11·
        4 个月前

        Precisely

        Edit: I have discovered that I can annoy my girlfriend by saying kombucha in the same intonation as Ryu says hadouken and it is very excellent

      • JillyB@beehaw.org
        1·
        4 个月前

        No. Japanese doesn’t have accented syllables. It’s all pronounced at a steady tone or with emphasis placed where it makes sense in context.

  • amio@kbin.social
    8·
    4 个月前

    [hadoːkẽꜜɴ]

    Or if the IPA is not helpful:

    “Ha” as in “hard” but with a shorter vowel, not the æ thing from “had”.

    “Door” without the R - the stress is here (hadouken). The important part is avoiding “oh” which sounds extremely thickly Anglo (“chipoohhhtlayyyyyy”)

    Ken is ken, I guess.

      • amio@kbin.social
        6·
        4 个月前

        In Japanese the syllable definitely does not rhyme with “too”, that’s closer to う which is not a vowel (albeit a character) in this word. Either way this is my bad for trying to use English phonetically.

        I should’ve said “look up a video where it’s pronounced by a Japanese person” up front. :p

        • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          4 个月前

          well the point of IPA is that a symbol matches up to an internationally-agreed sound and /o/ is the close-mid back rounded vowel

          however, what’s not listed is that it seems the elongation of a vowel in Japanese is suprasegmented - so the “doo” sound is closer to how you’d say the o’s in the (nonsense) phrase “do oozing” - a very subtle distinction from just “doo”

          it’s possible that Japanese speakers could endolabiallize differently, or that they form the vowel closer to open-back than close-back like /《o̞》 / but I’m not an expert

          • amio@kbin.social
            1·
            4 个月前

            I was mostly providing the IPA as a joke. It’s just copied from somewhere, I could probably track it back down and you could take it up with them. Certainly nothing in “door” or “hadouken” is anything close to an “oo” no matter how they’re all written.