Imaging singing Happy Birthday to her

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you in Chinese is not pronounced like "you" in English. totally different vowel sound

So how's it pronounced?

Kind of like yo

So their name is Yo-yo?

Not in the implied intonation. Chinese is a language where tone matters. So something like “hey” and “heyyyyyyyy” would be different words.

So how's it pronounced?

Pronunciation includes tone. I suppose you could say that that’s the basis for the sound

This is true in all Chinese languages when spoken normally but Mandarin (unlike Cantonese) ignores tone in singing. Pretty sure the name is Mandarin

When people say Chinese, it’s almost implied to be Mandarin. You are correct in both singing and that I was referring to mandarin. Technically mandarin and canto are both dialects of Chinese. Mandarin is just the official dialect

And since the post was about singing, your whole argument is flawed. Checkmate atheist