Posted on: General China Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/China/General?read=232 Surname: ------------------------- How do you pronounce the name "Uy"? In Singapore and Malaysia, if you are Hakka it is written as "Ooi" or "Oei" or "Wee", pronounced something like "oooeee". In Hokkien it is "Ng". They all mean Huang in mandarin or yellow. So do you pronounce "Wei" and "Uy" almost like "oooeee"? So how it is transliterated depends on the dialect the person is speaking even though it is the same Chinese character.