官话 (官話) guān huà
guān huà
proper noun
Mandarin
Domain: Linguistics 语言学
, Subdomain: China
, Concept: Dialect 方言
Notes: A historic term for the Peking dialect, literally the language of the officials, which it was in the Qing. It may also refer to the general dialect of Northern China (Norman 1988, p. 133-136; Sun 2006, loc. 281).
Contained in
- 打官话(打官話) to talk officiously; to assume the air of a functionary; to talk in official jargon
- 阿比西尼亚官话(阿比西尼亞官話) Amharic