^ It's also pronounced as 'sh' when it's followed by a 'y' vowel, like ㅑㅕㅛㅠ etc, the logic there being that 'y' vowels are a bit like 이 and the main part of the vowel put together. 이 + 아, 이 + 어, etc, when pronounced quickly, would be 야 and 여, just basically contracted. Hope that paragraph wasn't too confusing. x]
Anyway, for example, the verb 'to shower' is not written as 샤워하다 just to have more letters, it's so that it will be pronounced as 'sha-wuh' rather than 'sa-wuh' which would otherwise be 사워하다. That's why I figured her name would be 샨태 because I'd want to keep the 'sh' in my name. So it woudn't be pronunced syantae, it'd be sh[y]antae, the 'y' being in brackets because I notice it's not even really pronounced when it follows ㅅ, as in 샤워하다. Ehehe, just my reasoning. ^^
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