How do you read it? The minor editor has always read it as "wai fai (Chinese phonetic alphabet)", but some experts gave up and corrected the minor editor by saying that the word should not be read as "wai fai", and the correct pronunciation should be "micro fee" similar to Chinese. There are still many people who are as confused as Xiaobian when reading the reply. So, how should I read this word?

1. How to read online dictionary

If there is a problem, please go to Baidu. To be safe, pull Youdao to have a look with Google and Wikipedia.

Click the pronunciation key, Baidu, Youdao and Together with Wikipedia, they told me: "wai fai". Youdao and Wikipedia also marked phonetic symbols.

2. How to pronounce the two words of WiFi respectively?

Experts said that "WiFi" is composed of two words: "wireless" and "fidelity". How to pronounce these two words? The editor consulted Baidu, Youdao and Google (Baidu and Youdao gave the editor phonetic symbols):

There is no objection to the reading of Wireless, which is slightly different from the American reading of Fidelity. Baidu believes that "Fi" in Fidelity can also be read as "Fai".

From this point of view, according to the international practice of reading while reading, it seems that there is nothing wrong for people to read WiFi as "Wai Fai".

3. How to pronounce the pronunciation rules?

Experts also said that this word should not be regarded as a combination of two words, but as a word. Because there are two vowels here, I should pronounce short sounds, that is, "micro fee".

New Oriental experts have something to say about this.

I am not responsible for the above disputes.

4. How to read similar words

The editor found a similar word, HiFi, which is the professional vocabulary of audiophiles and the abbreviation of "High Fidelity".

The word appeared earlier than WiFi. Xiao Bian found that the word also has different pronunciations, such as "black lung", "Hi Fei", etc. (Xiao Bian felt that it was drugged), but most of them are "Hai Fai".

5. How do foreigners read

I searched Google for "How to promote WiFi" and found that foreigners have been discussing this issue since 2005:

3 replies and 5 pronunciations! Nima, are you finished!

There is also an article called“ ”(GIF and other 7 Internet terms that are easy to read incorrectly), the author gave us a new explanation:

Let's translate:

Although we all believe that the word Wi Fi should be pronounced "Why Fy", it should actually be pronounced "Wiffy". This is because most Wi Fi hotspots are unreliable. (So you should pronounce the word after iffy)

Depend on your sister, do you dare not be more reliable?

6. Theoretical basis of "micro fee"

I still think it's reliable to read "wai fai", but I still want to find out why experts read "micro fee".

It is said that there is a dictionary called "Le petit Robert", which is the most authoritative dictionary in France. The pronunciation of wifi is [wifi], and the pronunciation is close to the Chinese "Weifei".

I'm writing this dictionary now, but I don't know whether I really read it like this.

But experts, is it reliable to use a French dictionary to teach you how to pronounce English?

7. Conclusion

To sum up, the most common pronunciation is "Wai Fai". Xiao Bian said to follow the trend.

As for other pronunciations, experts say that they all know what they like to read. (I suspect that people don't know what they read "micro fee" before this...).

As for those who read "micro fee", don't laugh at him. There are experts behind.