In the "lost interview" of Bruce Lee with Pierre Berton (1971) he says "Tai Chi Chuan" is Mandarin, but I don't fully get the Cantonese version when he tells it.
I hear "Tai te kuen" ... but I'm not sure at all.
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(Any way you can think to pronounce it, there is probably a Chinese dialect in which it is correct—I've heard it said there are as many as 200. Over 30 years I've heard it pronounced in a dozen ways:)– DukeZhouDec 10, 2020 at 1:11
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answered Sep 9, 2019 at 12:58
I'm cantonese
It's pronounced: Tai 'cake' kuen
Taichi chuen is mandarin
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1I'm not sure what is kejk but the "cake" ending sound of cake connects to the pronunciation of kuen Aug 27, 2019 at 5:25
The site mdbg has audio of native Mandarin and Cantonese speakers. See the entry for taijiquan. You need to click on the characters for taijiquan as below in the screenshot to access the audio, which is circled for Cantonese in red.
Unfortunately, the middle word is missing Cantonese audio.
