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journey-to-the-attic · 1 year ago

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hi kin !!

just a random question but… how do u pronounce ik’s name? :0 bc in my head i’ve always read it as “ick” 😭

(sorry if someone’s alr asked this/u addressed it before 😭)

this is the first time i've realised i really don't have a set pronunciation for it either..... in the beginning i think i just read it like you would an acronym (the same way i assume you'd read mc), but nowadays i think i read it as more of a 'kei' sound

since i first came up with the logic for why ik gets called that in-universe (her birth name is yi ke (乙可), which an english speaker might read as IK), i've also been calling her a-ke (阿可) and also little ke (小可 (xiǎo kě)) in my head too

(i like to think zhao turned the little ke nickname into 小蝌蚪 (xiǎo kēdǒu) to call her 'little tadpole' when she was little)

#yi being the family name and ke her given name #i've explained this before but the reason i like this name is bc if you read in western order (ke yi) it's a synonym for 可以 #as in '我可以!' meaning 'i can do it!'#the a-ke thing is from a thing (mostly southern i think?) where you put an a- prefix in front of someone's name #as an expression of familiarity/affection #the sort of thing you'd use for close friends or on younger family members #zhaoxi primarily addresses ik like at present so it'll come up once she goes home #(i've been debating what to do with how ik and zhao would talk to each other in chinese actually)#(ik's not super fluent but she can hold up household conversation and all that)#(i've mostly settled on just translating what she'd be saying and putting it in italics to indicate a different language)#(but also she'd call her dad 爸 and it'd feel weird to do that there)#(so i might do pinyin for that stuff and translate everything else?? idk we'll cross that bridge when we get to it)#answering asks #anon asks

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