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Weipeng doesn’t rhyme with Irving. The sounds in pinyin don’t match exactly to how we might instinctively (in English, at least) interpret them. The e is more like a schwa, so pəng. Still ends in ng, but the vowel is pretty different from the ee sound in ing.
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I don't think Irving has an ee sound? I pronounce Irving as UR-vəng, so it very much does rhyme.
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