Chinese name to 平假名

[SiewChion]

My Chinese friend's name is 佩儀 and she wants to know how to say it in Japanese, ありがとうございます!

 

[Mikawa Ossan]

Her name written in pinyin would be Peiyi without the tone markers, right? In that case, her name would not be written in hiragana, but rather in katakana. In katakana Peiyi would be written ペイー or perhaps ペイイ.

In Japanese, the characters written together like that would probably be read as "Hai" and "gi". Just my opinion, but I think Peiyi sounds better in Japanese than Haigi. It sounds cuter to me.

 

[SiewChion]

Her name written in pinyin would be Peiyi without the tone markers, right? In that case, her name would not be written in hiragana, but rather in katakana. In katakana Peiyi would be written ペイー or perhaps ペイイ.

In Japanese, the characters written together like that would probably be read as "Hai" and "gi". Just my opinion, but I think Peiyi sounds better in Japanese than Haigi. It sounds cuter to me.

ありがとう！Chinese names to Japanese there're no standard rules, as you explained, fox example, 張飛，ちょう-ひ，but 劉備，-び，it sounds closer to Chinese character. Thanks

 

[Toritoribe]

Actually, standard rules exist. 音読み, i.e., Chinese origin readings are used for Chinese names. It's Chinese origin, but Japanese way of reading after all. The on'yomi of a kanji might be closer to the modern Chinese pronunciation, or could be totally different. There is historical background. Please refer to the wikipedia page linked below.

On'yomi - Wikipedia

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Other than that, the Japanese pronunciations are changed in the history, e.g. "pi --> fi --> hi" for ひ, so the ancient pronunciation could be closer to the original Chinese at the time.

As Mikawa-san answered, the Japanese way of reading for 佩儀 is はいぎ. However, the transliteration of Chinese pronunciation is also used nowadays. For example, チャン・イーモー is more common than ちょう げいぼう for 張芸謀, so ペイイ also works well. (These readings are usually not applied to historical people, so 張飛 is not called チャン・フェイ.)