What does "water" mean in Hokkien?
The word "water" in Hokkien means very beautiful.
Minnan
Minnan language originated in Quanzhou. In addition to the main distribution areas in southern Fujian and Taiwan, it is also widely used in northeastern Fujian, southeastern Zhejiang, Chaoshan and Hailufeng areas in Guangdong, Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong, Hainan Island and most Chinese communities in Southeast Asia.
In academic terms, Quanzhou dialect is used as the standard accent. Even in places with different accents of Hokkien, Gaojia opera, Liyuan opera, and Nanyin are still sung in the ancient Quanzhou Fucheng dialect. Today, Hokkien dialect has become It is one of the representatives of the 60 major languages of the earth. It has also been recorded on the gold-plated records of the "Voyager" 1 and 2 spacecraft launched by the United States in 1977. Go to the vast expanse of the galaxy to find your friends in outer space.
The word Hokkien has a broad sense and a narrow sense. The broad sense refers to the collection of Hokkien languages in academic terms, while the narrow sense only refers to the Hokkien languages of Fujian and Taiwan. Taiwanese and Western scholars mostly think it is one language and belongs to the Chinese family. In the classification of mainland linguistics, it is a type of Min language in the Chinese language family. Hokkien has different names in various places. For example, in mainland China it is often called Quanzhou dialect, Zhangzhou dialect, Xiamen dialect, Fujian dialect, Heluo dialect, etc.; in Taiwan it is also called Taiwanese (Taiwanese Hokkien), Taiwanese, Heluo dialect, etc. Luo dialect or Hok Lo dialect, overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia call it Hokkien (Hokkien) or Zan dialect (the Taiwanese and Fujian characters are written as Zanong dialect).
Distribution area
Minnan (Manlam ngy), also known as Hō-ló-ōe (Taiwanese, Taiwanese, Heluo, etc.) in Taiwan, and also Hokkien (Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Macao, overseas), it belongs to a type of Chinese Min language. In terms of linguistic classification, it is a Chinese dialect. The term "Minnan" has a broad and narrow sense, and the broad sense refers to the collection of academically pan-Minnan languages. Hokkien in the narrow sense is mainly distributed in China's Fujian, Guangdong (eastern Guangdong) and Taiwan Province, as well as most of Xinluo District in Longyan and most of Zhangping City, most of Datian in Sanming, a small part of Youxi, and Ningde City in eastern Fujian Fuding area, Cangnan, Pingyang, Dongtou, Yuhuan, parts of Wenling, Hainan, Leizhou Peninsula, etc. in southern Zhejiang. It is also distributed in other parts of mainland China and Southeast Asia such as Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Brunei and other countries and regions.