Putonghua
Standard Mandarin, the official language of the People's Republic of ChinaStandard Mandarin, the official language of the People's Republic of China; the state-designated national speech of the Han nationality using Beijing pronunciation as the standard pronunciation, Beijing speech as the basic dialect, and the model writing of the modern vernacular prose as the norm for grammar.
» "Putonghua" and "Beijinghua" are not the same.
Meaning
1 sensesStandard Mandarin, the official language of the People's Republic of China; the state-designated national speech of the Han nationality using Beijing pronunciation as the standard pronunciation, Beijing speech as the basic dialect, and the model writing of the modern vernacular prose as the norm for grammar.
Hochchinesisch
путунхуа́putunxuá
Examples
2 sentences"Putonghua" and "Beijinghua" are not the same.
I can speak Standard Chinese (Putonghua), Southwestern Mandarin, Wu Chinese, and Spanish.
Translations
3 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 1
Origin
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 普通話／普通话 (PǔtōFrom the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 普通話／普通话 (Pǔtōnghuà, literally “common speech”).
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