Talk:Zhu Zhenheng

"Courtesy name Dax"
The first sentence in the specifies his name as "Zhu Zhenheng (1282–1358), courtesy name Dax ...". I'm puzzled by this rendering: "Dax" doesn't look like pinyin-romanized Mandarin; it looks like it's pronounced, with a distinctly non-Chinese syllable, and a reading like would still have a non-Mandarin final in the syllable. Looking up the characters on Wiktionary, the pronunciation of 丹溪 would instead be, (maybe with tone sandhi or something, I don't actually speak Chinese).

So, what happened here? Does the name actually have such a weird (for Mandarin) syllable in it? Or is this a case of where the name in Western sources is quite different from the name as pronounced in Chinese (cf. Confucius, )? In that case, shouldn't the pinyin rendering of 丹溪 follow the Chinese pronunciation of those characters, rather than a western pronunciation? oatco (talk) 15:36, 12 January 2023 (UTC) oatco (talk) 15:36, 12 January 2023 (UTC)


 * "what happened here" = silly vandalism, plain and simple... KINGofLETTUCE 👑  🥬 18:58, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Heh, makes sense. Should've checked history, whoops ;) oatco (talk) 22:20, 12 January 2023 (UTC)