What is the most common way to pronounce 運? So is spelled , but I seem to hear most of my friends pronounce it as . My friends and family are 20-60 years of age and come from mostly Tokyo and Ibaraki area. I am living in the US now and so am not speaking much Japanese, but I remember trying to pronounce it as and being misunderstood till I pronounced it as (or maybe more like a nasal ahn). Is this a regional dialect? Does anyone pronounce it as ? Which way should I pronounce it to be understood by most Japanese?

I'm sure it is pronounced as Un~

I lived in ibaraki and they used "un" when we discussed it in benkyoukai. Haven't heard "an" used before.