普通话 (普通話) pǔtōnghuà
pǔtōnghuà
noun
Standard Chinese
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: Literally, the common language, this term was coined by reformers in the Republican period to standardize the national language in a form that could be widely adopted in Chinese society (Norman 1988, p. 135; Shei 2014, loc. 141; Sun 2006, loc. 133).
Contained in
- 普通话水平测试(普通話水平測試) Putonghua Proficiency Test, an official test of spoken fluency in Standard Chinese for native speakers of Chinese languages, developed in the PRC in 1994
Collocations
- 普通话音 (普通話音) 普通话音 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧邶风‧凱風 Lessons from the states - Odes of Bei - Kai Feng — count: 2