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Originally Posted by kireikoori
Hmm...Ga Ho actually sounds a little bit similar to Kago. But Jia Hu sounds nothing like Kago. Unsurprising, considering neither Japanese or Korean are Sino-Tibetan languages.
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The reason Jia Hu sounds nothing like Kago is because "Jia HU" is modern mandarin. The pronunciation "Kago" came from ancient Chinese, which sounds almost nothing like modern Mandarin (what most people think is the only type of Chinese). The Japanese imported Kanji from China during the Tang Dynasty (golden age of China) for the Buddhist scriptures that the monk Xuanzhang got from India, so modern Japanese pronunciations of kanji sound more like ancient Chinese than modern mandarin. Got it?