Yifei is a Chinese name I am considering to give my DD. It is read as /[name_m]YEE[/name_m]-FEI/ in Chinese. I am wondering if it is easy enough to pronounce by an English speaker or it will be read as other pronunciation in English. Please try it. Thank you very much.
When I saw it, I thought it was pronounced “[name_m]Yee[/name_m]-fay.” Was I right? 
I would pronounce Yifei as “yee fay”. Some people may say “yiffy”.
Before seeing that it’s a Chinese name, my brain read it as “Yiffy”. I don’t think it’s intuitive in English.
I first thought “yiffy.”
I thought it was YIE-fay, as in it rhymes with “eye”.
Thank you all very much but I am not sure how different between /yee-fei/, “yee fay”, and “yiffy”. I am not a native English speaker.
I think the first syllable is read as /yee/ or /yi/. The latter is a bit short in pronunciation. Is that right?
I read the second syllable as /fei/, approximation of the first part of “face”.
I do not know how “fay” and “ffy” are read exactly. [name_m]How[/name_m] are they like /fei/ or something else?
Thank you for your further help.
I thought it would be [name_m]Yee[/name_m]-fay, with the ee like we and the ay like may
Yiffy would be pronounced yif - ee - with the first part sounding like the word lift without the t; It would like the English words jiffy or iffy
I read it like yi-fay
yi sounds like lift
[name_f]Fay[/name_f] sounds like the first part of face, like you said
Thank you all so much. It sounds that it can be pronounced okay in English although it is not that intuitive.
It is almost exactly yee-fay in Chinese and I think yiffy /yif-ee/ is also acceptable.