Ip Man v Yip Man

[Phil Redmond]

To all the native Cantonese speakers. Do you pronounce the Y in Yip or do you say Ip?
I ask because I lost some of my Cantonese when I lived in Detroit. Now that I'm teaching in NYC I want get my tones and accent back.

[Pacman]

no you don't.

[ntc]

The character is generally pronounced with a "Y"... but sounds more like "Yeep" instead of "YiP".

BTW... Merry Christmas, and have a great new year.

[CLFNole]

And the "Man" is pronounced more like "Mun".

[Phil Redmond]

no you don't.

No I don't what?

[Phil Redmond]

So my pronouncing the Y was correct. Thanks

[Runlikehell]

Going on from what both ntc and CLFNole have said, I have some friends from HK who pronounce it, and write it as 'Yip Mun'.

I pronounce and write the Y as well. Though I understand that Ip Chun (I believe) requests that it be spelled 'Ip'. Maybe that doesn't effect pronunciation.

[Vajramusti]

I can't comment on the pronunciation - but IM's travel ID showed Ip Man... a photo of the ID was
shown on the net before and he and his family preferred the IM- not the YM.

Joy Chaudhuri

[chusauli]

"Ip man" was probably due to lack of standard romanization in those days.

And yes, it is pronounced as, "Yeep Mun".

[Phil Redmond]

"Ip man" was probably due to lack of standard romanization in those days.

And yes, it is pronounced as, "Yeep Mun".

Thanks Robert.

[PalmStriker]

Now that that's settled.