Chinese Characters I Always Forget How to Pronounce

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@HongKonger

I’ve said it both ways, and had people correct me both ways.

If you want to know why, I wrote something on this phenomenon.

Au and ou diphthongs as a result of loss of final stops

A series of characters with 各 as a phonetic component oddly has 4 different sets of pronunciations in Mandarin. The first set, 格, 閣 and etc. are pronounced as ke, which sounds about the same as 各 aside from some tone differences. The second set, 駱 is read as lou. The third set, such as 落, 酪, 絡, 烙 and etc., often has 2 sets of pronunciations, lou or lau. The last set, 路, 賂, and etc. are read as lu. In Taiwan 酪 is usually pronounced as luo, so for avocados, instead of lauli like how most say …