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[-] capt_wolf@lemmy.world 34 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Exactly like Ryu and Ken pronounce it in the original game. Ha-doo-ken! Emphasis on the doo. Repeat until your best friend is dead and calls you a cheater. Move on to Mortal Kombat knowing full well you're picking Scorpion...

Edit: Hadouken spam for reference.

[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

Ha-do^o^-ken!

[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

This is the way I always heard it. Not just do-kin. Ha-deh’u-kin! Is how I hear it.

[-] Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 8 months ago

Ha-Dough-Ken

[-] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 8 months ago

はどうけん

[-] DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

I'm seeing a lot of wrong answers, and as a native speaker, I must interject.

How. Do. Ken.

How do, Ken?

Thank you.

[-] The_Helmet_Stays_On@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 8 months ago

How-do-you-do-Ken

[-] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 2 points 8 months ago

"Ow, that hurts!"

"Sorry-you-ken!"

[-] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 9 points 8 months ago

Ha-dooo-ken

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 4 points 8 months ago

is it second syllable that is accented? as in ha-DOU-ken kom-BU-cha pa-NER-a bread?

[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Precisely

Edit: I have discovered that I can annoy my girlfriend by saying kombucha in the same intonation as Ryu says hadouken and it is very excellent

[-] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I said all those words mentally as the og crunchy soundbite

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 points 8 months ago

thank you so much all the top videos i could find were ai voices so this is very helpful

tell your gf sorry not sorry on my behalf :)

[-] loops@beehaw.org 1 points 8 months ago

[-] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 2 points 8 months ago

Think so

[-] JillyB@beehaw.org 1 points 8 months ago

No. Japanese doesn't have accented syllables. It's all pronounced at a steady tone or with emphasis placed where it makes sense in context.

[-] amio@kbin.social 8 points 8 months ago

[hadoːkẽꜜɴ]

Or if the IPA is not helpful:

"Ha" as in "hard" but with a shorter vowel, not the æ thing from "had".

"Door" without the R - the stress is here (hadouken). The important part is avoiding "oh" which sounds extremely thickly Anglo ("chipoohhhtlayyyyyy")

Ken is ken, I guess.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago

/do:/ is not the same vowel as door, that's /dɔː/

it's 'doo" to rhyme with "too".

[-] amio@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

In Japanese the syllable definitely does not rhyme with "too", that's closer to う which is not a vowel (albeit a character) in this word. Either way this is my bad for trying to use English phonetically.

I should've said "look up a video where it's pronounced by a Japanese person" up front. :p

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

well the point of IPA is that a symbol matches up to an internationally-agreed sound and /o/ is the close-mid back rounded vowel

however, what's not listed is that it seems the elongation of a vowel in Japanese is suprasegmented - so the "doo" sound is closer to how you'd say the o's in the (nonsense) phrase "do oozing" - a very subtle distinction from just "doo"

it's possible that Japanese speakers could endolabiallize differently, or that they form the vowel closer to open-back than close-back like /《o̞》 / but I'm not an expert

[-] amio@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

I was mostly providing the IPA as a joke. It's just copied from somewhere, I could probably track it back down and you could take it up with them. Certainly nothing in "door" or "hadouken" is anything close to an "oo" no matter how they're all written.