How do you pronounce Japanese words correctly?
How do you pronounce the Japanese name Airi?
[ 3 syll. ai-ri, air-i ] The baby girl name Airi is pronounced as AA-iy-Riy- †. Airi is used chiefly in Japanese and its origin is also Japanese. The meaning of Airi is beloved jasmine.
How do you say common names in Japanese?
Why is the U not pronounced in Japanese?
The answer is, you don’t leave out the “u”. In Japanese, when certain short vowels come between two unvoiced consonants (consonants that you don’t activate your voice box to pronounce, e.g., s, t, k, etc), or at the end of a word after an unvoiced consonant, the vowels become unvoiced.