“Xiaohe”
How the heck is that pronounced? Who comes up with these letters? Why don’t they just spell them roughly phonetically? Is this an attempt to make them look exotic? I don’t get it.
It’s the mainland chinese/english phonetic system, called pinyin.
That would be roughly “show” (as in shower), “huh” as in when someone says “huh?”.
"She-ow" pronounced as a single syllable, following by "her", but with a silent "r".