Talk:義山

Philippine Hokkien

@Mlgc1998 I'm suspicious of this as how prevalent this is. We call that place gī-san. --Mar vin kaiser (talk) 07:13, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

@Mar vin kaiser: This one is kinda odd. It's in most every chinese cemetery sign I've seen in our country, but when I ask people how you call that, sometimes they say something weird like, something like, i-soaⁿ or gi-soaⁿ or gi-san, and I'm inclined to think it comes from the idea that they're trying to mix Mandarin into this cuz the signs are trying to be international with chinese who may be reading them, since the cemeteries aren't supposed to be exclusively hokkien cemeteries or something like that.--Mlgc1998 (talk) 08:49, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

@Mlgc1998: So that means you haven't seen it used in a sentence as a single word? Because I haven't. --Mar vin kaiser (talk) 08:58, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

@Mar vin kaiser: A single word? wdym? The preferred frequent term when talking about cemeteries every year by whichever old person or boomer gen hokkien speaker around here is 新山(sin-soaⁿ) all the time, but the signs always say that one, and the mismatch always makes me wonder and so I ask people and they say either of those above, or I just asked my parents now and both of them keep saying it in either mandarin or insisting it's something like i-soaⁿ in hokkien, even if I ask them, if it's gī-san, they just look at me weirdly.--Mlgc1998 (talk) 09:17, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

@Justinrleung: Sorry, tagged you by mistake lol. --Mar vin kaiser (talk) 08:59, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

@Mar vin kaiser, Mlgc1998: Well, 菲律賓咱人話研究 also records it as gī-san. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 09:01, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

@Justinrleung: Thanks! I didn't know it was listed there. --Mar vin kaiser (talk) 09:14, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

Grave or cementery

@The dog2 In Southeast Asia, does this term refer to an individual grave or a cementery? RcAlex36 (talk) 09:00, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

@RcAlex36: I've actually never come across this term. So it's not common in Singapore. The dog2 (talk) 16:23, 22 November 2020 (UTC)