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Putonghua
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putonghua pǔtōnghuà Pǔtōnghuà
English
Alternative forms
from Wade-Giles en p'u-t'ung-hua
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the en cmn - Chinese pronunciation for 普通話 Pǔtōnghuà common speech.
Pronunciation
en /ˌpuːtɒŋˈhwɑː/ UK
en /ˌputɔŋˈhwɑ/ US
en /ˌputɑŋˈhwɑ/ cot-caught
Proper noun
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.
en Standard Mandarin
en 2019 Li Huang; James Lambert Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 10.1080/01434632.2019.1596115 10 As a mainland China national, the counter for our trial was fluent in English, Putonghua, and the Sichuan dialect, and was familiar with a number of other major Chinese languages such as Cantonese and Hakka.
Translations
the official language of the People's Republic of China Mandarin
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 普通話 pou2 tung1 waa6-2
Mandarin: cmn 普通話 pǔtōnghuà
Wu: wuu 普通閒話
French: fr putonghua m
German: de Hochchinesisch n
Japanese: ja 普通話 ふつうわ, futsūwa, ja 北京語 ペキンご, pekingo
Korean: ko 보통화(普通話)
Russian: ru путунхуа́ m
Uyghur: ug پۇتۇڭخۇا, ug ئورتاق تىل, ug دۆلەت تىلى
Vietnamese: vi tiếng Phổ thông (vi tiếng + vi 普通), vi phổ thông thoại (vi 普通話)
Zhuang: za bujdunghva
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