Putonghua

Meaning

Standard 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.

Synonyms

Mandarin

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Mandarin Chinese

Pekinese

Translations

Hochchinesisch

pékinois

pechinese

pequinês

pekinés

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌpuːtɒŋˈhwɑː/

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 普通話／普通话 (Pǔtōnghuà, literally “common speech”).