Pronunciation of hui - 会

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Hey, there, This character is pronounced differently in both archchinese.com and neospeech hui16

 

Archchinese pronounces it more or less like hui4 (hu ì). The site also mentions an alternative pronunciation: kuai4

 

 

The voice pronounces it like huei4 (huè i) or kuei4, I am not sure.

 会.mp3

 

 

Nothing matches, could you please tell me the truth about this character´s pronunciation?

 

Keep in mind I am pretty much n00b ;)

 

EDIT:

https://translate.google.com/#zh-CN/en/会

 

In google translate, the character is pronounced like kuei4 or huei too!

[Lanchong]

It is pronounced differently depending on the context. When the word involves accounting, it's pronounced kuai4. So the word for accountant/accountancy - 会计 - is pronounced kuai4ji4.

In all other cases, it's pronounced hui4. So the sentence 我会说中文 - I am able to speak Chinese - has 会 pronounced as hui4

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Is the pronunciation in the attached file correct? (attached file in first post)

 

 In that file it is pronounced, to my ear, as huei4, but archchinese pronounces it as hui4 (http://www.archchinese.com/chinese_english_dictionary.html?find=%E4%BC%9A)

 

The are definitely different pronunciations, which one is correct?

[陳德聰]

The pronunciation at archchinese is weird to me. Even though the word is written "hui" in pinyin, in everyday speech it is generally pronounced as [huei]. I have only ever heard Chinese teachers pronouncing it as [hui]. In general, the pinyin "ui" is pronounced [uei].

[renzhe]

The final which is written "-ui" in pinyin is usually read out as "-uei". It is always written as "-ui".

That said, there is quite a bit of variation, and you will hear people pronounce it more like "-ui" or more like "-uei". The latter is by far more common.

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