How do you pronounce Syaoran?

Question

In Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles, the protagonist's given name is Syaoran. How do you pronounce that? It's always confused me!

Answer 1

don't know soz lol

Answer 2

Mmm

Syao : It's like shao from shaolin monks

ran : the R is short like in cry ( it sound more like the R that its used in spanish) and the "an" sounds like the one of "and"

Anyway i believe the real name ( in chinese ) Xiaolang but the L was changed for an R cause japanese people dont use the L in their language

..Sorry for the weird examples xD

Answer 3

            Na - ru - to

           Sya - o - ran

Syaoran is pronunced that way. Na-ru-to.  

nah, am just cranking.  "SHIAO-RAN"  

Answer 4

Syao = show, as in "shower", not as in "showtime".

R = some sort of strange hybrid of "r" and "l". It's sort of rolled, similar to a "d" sound.

An = an, as in "can", not as in "any".

This is strictly the Japanese way of saying it. It is something like Xiaolang in Chinese, which was where it is supposed to have come from, but since the anime/manga of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles is Japanese, I assume that is the way you were looking to pronounce it.

I have provided a clip from the English-subbed Japanese original of Cardcaptor Sakura. Listen closely and Sakura will say "Syaoran-kun". Start watching at 1:00 and she will say the name. I hope this helps!  

Answer 5

i love that manga//anime! it's pronounced, Shao-ron.

Answer 6

Well, it's actually a Chinese name, so probably Xiao(Shao) Ran

But sometimes in the dub they pronounce it Siao-Raan...O-O