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Kuan-hua
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English
Etymology
From en cmn 官話 Guānhuà en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Kuan¹-hua⁴.Mandarin language, Wade-Giles romanization Kuan-hua, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Proper noun
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en Guanhua.
en 1941 w:Harold Acton Small Talk in China Folios of New Writing https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.239423/ w:Hogarth Press 6267639 99 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.239423/page/n101/ But there are numerous forms of pai-hua and it was finally decided to adopt the most widely spoken kuan-hua, which foreigners translate as ‘mandarin,’ since it has long been the speech used by officials all over China, as distinct from the local dialects.
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