PUTONGHUA

Meaning of PUTONGHUA in English

/ puːˈtʊŋhwɑː; NAmE / noun

[ U ] the standard spoken form of modern Chinese, based on the form spoken in Beijing

—compare Mandarin

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WORD ORIGIN

Chinese , literally common spoken language .

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне. 2005

PUTONGHUA — /pooh"tung"hwah"/ , n. the form of Chinese, based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin, adopted as the official national language …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
PUTONGHUA — n. official language of China, Mandarin
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
PUTONGHUA — [ pu:'tʊŋhwα: ] ■ noun the standard spoken form of modern Chinese, based on the dialect of Beijing. Origin Chin., …
Concise Oxford English vocab
PUTONGHUA — putonghua BrE AmE ˌpuː tɒŋ ˈhwɑː AmE -tɔːŋ- -tɑːŋ- —Chinese pǔtōnghuà [ 3 pʰu 1 tʰʊŋ 4 xwa \]
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
P'U-T'UNG HUA — /pooh"tung"hwah"/ , n. Putonghua.
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
KUO-YÜ — /gwaw"yyuu"/ , n. Putonghua.
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
MANDARIN LANGUAGE — also called Northern Chinese, Chinese (Wade-Giles) Kuan-hua, or (Pinyin) Guanhua (Officials Language) the most widely spoken form of Chinese. Mandarin …
Britannica English vocabulary
JIANG SHR — [Chinese] Putonghua. The zombies of Chinese myth (see: Geong Si).
Encyclopedia Mythica English vocab
GEONG SI — [Chinese] Jiang Shr (Putonghua) or Kuang Shi (Cantonese) are the zombies of Chinese myth. They have physical bodies, but they …
Encyclopedia Mythica English vocab
DZI DZAT — [Chinese] "Folded paper" in Macau and Hong Kong and Guangdong village-Cantonese, though this phrase's Putonghua equivalent seems to mean nothing …
Encyclopedia Mythica English vocab

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary

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