Talk:Ningyo

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The scope of the ningyo article should obviously be limited to "Japanese merfolk" only.

However, the word ningyo (人魚) is not just a special world for the Japanese ningyo, it is a generic word for merfolk/mermaid world-wide, and the current ja:人魚 article reflects this.

Therefore interlang linking ja:ningyo<->en:ningyo is a mismatch, and ja:ningyo<->en:mermaid will be more correct. --Kiyoweap (talk) 09:43, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I do not think the Toriyama Sekien drawing used here is applicable, because the captions indicate a Chinese merfolk. (File:SekienNingyo.gif added here by user:Kotengu, later replaced with File:SekienNingyo.jpg ぎゅうひ).

The caption is translated here.[1] "Dwells to the West of the World Tree (Chinese: 建木 Jianmu).. from the realms of the Di (Chinese: 氐人國)". This mermaid-like "Ti people" "Di people" "Diren" is recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, though I have not found the English translated text for the moment, only a mention in this blog[2]. --Kiyoweap (talk) 10:08, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

First I saw what looks like broken links. I attempted but failed to correct as I saw inconsistencies in formatting and couldn’t figure out how to correctly format. Still too inexperienced. Spay/Neuter (talk) 07:37, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Is "Seaman" a good example? 24.16.239.30 (talk) 21:00, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]