How to pronounce Huyen

Huyen is most commonly pronounced "hwee uhn" (/ˈhwiən/). This is the widely-used reading among engineers, though edge cases exist.

Chip Huyen, author of O'Reilly's 'AI Engineering' and 'Designing Machine Learning Systems' (huyenchip.com). Vietnamese Huyền is a single syllable — Wiktionary gives Hanoi [hwiən˨˩], roughly 'hw' plus the name Ian; English readers wrongly stretch it into three syllables as 'HYOO-yen'. Commonly simplified in English to rhyme with 'when'.

Alternate readings you might hear:

• "hwen" /ˈhwɛn/

Source: Wiktionary — Huyền (Hà Nội [hwiən˨˩])

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