Ayu's Name
 

I alway wondered how is Ayu's name pronounced in Japaneses. How is it said in Romaji ??????
:confused, this has been on my mind for ages now lol :eyebrow

I know in chinese her name pronounced like: BAN KAY BO

It's pronounced as it's romanized. Download one of her CD CMs and listen to the announcer say it.

Actually her Chinese name (Mandarin) is pronounced: Bihn Chi Boo

Japaneses lol! it's the same thing though -_- Ayumi...it's not like it's an english name

Ah-Yuu-Me

I'll add on to that:

Her last name is prounounced: Hah muh zha kee

when you say the a, say ah

thats so informative LOL

ban kay bo-cantonese

bin chi bu-mandarin

ayumi=AH-YOO-mi
hamasaki=ha-mah-SAH-kee

:laugh is that all, i was way thought that it was pronounced like that in the cm because the announcer wanted to make it the english have a japanese sound to it :thud

Anyways cant believe it was just:
AH-YOO-mi ha-mah-SAH-kee that was it :eyebrow

Thanks for your help guys :cool

ha-mah-SAH-kee, is the english way to day it.
the japanese way is HA-ma-sah-ki

what he says is cantonese

BUN-KAY-BOH

EDIT: cantonese is considered as chinese also

wht does the captital letter parts means? HA masaki er..referring to extepan's post

when i was watching a advert in hong kong and on the a clip box set the adverts reffers her name as

hamasaki ayumi....is it likt the chine way of saying your name...surname first?

capitals mean the stress falls on that syllable

both chinese & japanese, and surprisingly even hungarian people say hte surname first then the name

oh ok.. thank u

woww... american people have a lot of accent.... but its kind´a funny to listen the american way of saying "は-ま-さ-き" "あ-ゆ-み"...lol.
try to speak as open as you can.... AAAAAAAAAA EEEEEE IIII OOOOO UUUUUUU o.0

american actually say あ-ゆ-み は-ま-さ-き :)

i'm american and i say it "eye - YOU - mee hah - mah - SAH - kee"