"You
say feng shui, I say fung sheu, he says fung shui, she says fengshui,
they say fung sway, we say fung shue, and yes someone says fung shway"
by Jeff Rasmussen, PhD |
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In my article "You say Taoism I say Daoism" I wrote about the two most typical romanizations of the chinese terms for tao, taoist, taoism. The matter gets even more complicated with feng shui since neither word is pronounced as it is spelled. Feng is Chinese for wind and shui is Chinese for water. And feng shui is a system used for determining the placement of houses, graves, etc. The correct pronunciation is {F[^e]ng"-shu`i}, that is "fung schway" and so attempts to spell it give us many results*. These are some of the most popular:
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