Talk:Chūhai

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Is this drink availble anywhere outside of Japan?--Ccoolidge 03:59, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] rename (back) to chu-hi?

While the actual pronunciation of the beverage in question is 'chuuhai', the standard romaji for it seems to be 'chu-hi' everywhere I've seen... and WP:MOS(Japan) says "Names should be romanized according to common usage". So - any objections to this? --moof 13:59, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

The romaji is still "chūhai" or "chuuhai". (Romaji never reads "hi" as /haI/ (long i) ; it's always /hi/ (short i).) The "chu-hi" you're seeing is a partially anglicized way of writing the word. It seems to me that the beverage compnies (especially TaKaRa) prefer "chu-hi" while some books and websites may write "chu-hai" and the like[1]. I can't determine which is more common. --朝彦 (Asahiko) 14:09, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I agree about the romaji version (and how you'd actually want to pronounce it); however, I'm being pedantic in differentiating "romaji" from "romanization", particularly in light of the example given in #8 of "body text":

Names should be romanized according to common usage (see below), which includes unconventional romanizations by licensees (e.g., Devil Hunter Yohko and Tenjho Tenge).

While I'm hardly religious about the issue, I think it's a situation that hasn't shown up terribly often before (i.e. a nonstandard romanization 'by Japanese' of a Japanese term). And for what it's worth, I based my original message from skimming the various labels of the beverage in question at the supermarket: nowhere did I see chūhai, only chi-hi. Clearly, more drinkingresearch is needed. --moof 21:46, 13 November 2007 (UTC)