How do you pronounce Genji's name?

[spawnpoint]

I see Youtubers pronounce his name as "Genji" but I've always pronounced it as "Jenji". What is the right way to pronounce it? How do you pronounce it?

 

[Faux]

The actual way they would say it in Japan is with a hard G. : )

 

[Maiana]

This is so weird because I was trying to figure out how to correctly pronounce his name the other day.
After looking on a few websites, hearing Japanese pronunciations of the name, and putting it in google translate, I just call him Genji.
I do think the 'Jenji' pronunciation is cute though >3<

 

[Hikari]

I've heard the name before in Overwatch (one of the character is named Genji) as being pronounced with a hard G, so I've always gone with that way lol

 

[Tasuot]

I pronounce it Genji just like the character in Overwatch!

 

[PaperCat]

I've always said Genji with a hard G.
But looking it up, one website has it as jen-ji

 

[Raz]

The actual way they would say it in Japan is with a hard G. : )

This.

It's funny because my native language does have more than a few phonetic similarities with Japanese (despite being completely different), so the actual sounds are very "normal", even if it would be written as "Guendji" (with the "-dj" sound for the letter j being not really common in Portuguese)

 

[Hopeless Opus]

i pronounce it the japanese way - genji

 

[The Peanut Butter Fish]

According to Japanese pronunciation it should be closer to Geh (g as in grass). End of story, that's the correct pronunciation.

 

[Briar]

I pronounce it Genji. As for why, I guess I just thought that's probably the sound g would represent in a romanized Japanese word/name. And I think that assumption came from other Japanese words/names I've heard, like geisha and tengu.

 

[Cheryll]

I pronounce it as Geh-nn-jee like げんじ. I'm pretty sure that's how it is in Japanese romanization?

 

[Xara]

i’ve always pronounced it like ginji lmao

 

[Clock]

Its pronounced the Japanese way as hard G.

 

[Krissi2197]

I pronounce it like they do in Overwatch c:

 

[Dormire]

"げんじ" as in Gen-ji. Westerners pronounce names quite weird, one youtuber pronounces Tortimer as Tor-timer (like turtle + old timer) and not like Tortimer like Mortimer lolll

 

[Altarium]

"げんじ" as in Gen-ji. Westerners pronounce names quite weird, one youtuber pronounces Tortimer as Tor-timer (like turtle + old timer) and not like Tortimer like Mortimer lolll

I never thought about the Tor-timer pronunciation omg...

 

[Dormire]

I never thought about the Tor-timer pronunciation omg...

That messed me up bad. I was like, is this the new Kyogre (kye-ogre vs keeyo-grey) mess?

 

[Altarium]

That messed me up bad. I was like, is this the new Kyogre (kye-ogre vs keeyo-grey) mess?

Oh dear don't even get me started on Pokémon pronunciations... (ray-quayza vs ray-quahza is another fun one, or how apparently the official pronunciation for Illumise is ee-loo-mee-say rather than ee-luh-mize... nightmare)

 

[Dormire]

Oh dear don't even get me started on Pokémon pronunciations... (ray-quayza vs ray-quahza is another fun one)

Agreed. Though in Animal Crossing, there are names that are just strange to pronounce at least, not as awful as Pokemon ones go.

 

[Chris]

Hard G, due to the Japanese origin.