山茱萸(サンシュユ) Japanese cornel

　サンシュユという発音は、発音しにくいです。そう思う人は少なくないようです。元々漢名を音読みしたので無理があるのでしょう。サン・シュ・ユと区切るのがコツだと教わりました。

　In Japanese, the name of this plant is pronounced as “Sanshuyu”.
　Pronouncing the word “sanshuyu”  is a challenge. It appears that a large number of people believe that way. This might be because it was Chinese reading (On-yomi). I was taught that the trick is to separate it three parts as "san-shu-yu."