I've calling my waifu by the wrong name :'(

And here I thought I was misreading it.
Now I see where it did come from.

Ehhh, in the 20th century, people still would have pronounced フ as /u/, the phonological change occurred previously, the typological reform was completed later (The draft reform was only passed in 1923, and it really was only completed post-war)... and if I recall correctly, the /fu/ was one of the first sounds to drop. (after the really odd ones, where they had 8 vowels...)

Fun fact! てふてふ /tefutefu/ became 蝶々 (ちょうちょう) /chouchou/ through the various sound changes from Classical Japanese to Modern.

Paracite said:

Ehhh, in the 20th century, people still would have pronounced フ as /u/, the phonological change occurred previously, the typological reform was completed later (The draft reform was only passed in 1923, and it really was only completed post-war)... and if I recall correctly, the /fu/ was one of the first sounds to drop. (after the really odd ones, where they had 8 vowels...)

Fun fact! てふてふ /tefutefu/ became 蝶々 (ちょうちょう) /chouchou/ through the various sound changes from Classical Japanese to Modern.

Thanks. Didn't know that before. So it's written as "Yufudachi" but pronounced as "Yuudachi"?

Can you please double-check the new TL note to see if it's correct now?

Ironbottom said:

Thanks. Didn't know that before. So it's written as "Yufudachi" but pronounced as "Yuudachi"?

Can you please double-check the new TL note to see if it's correct now?

Good enough. You might notice that there's not a lot of single characters that are something-/fu/, since they all became something-/u/. Nothing wrong with starting a character with /fu/ though.