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baihua

baihua noun: vernacular Chinese, as opposed to Classical Chinese.

Noun

baihua (uncountable)

  1. Vernacular Chinese, as opposed to Classical Chinese
    • The first baihua-journals until about 1901 contained mainly articles and news, which had been originally written in wenyan and were now translated into the vernacular language.2004, Michael Lackner, Natascha Vittinghoff, Mapping Meanings: The Field of New Learning in Late Qing China, BRILL, →ISBN, page 280

Origin of baihua

From Mandarin 白話／白话 (báihuà).

Questions about baihua

What does baihua mean?
Baihua means vernacular Chinese, as opposed to Classical Chinese.
What part of speech is baihua?
Baihua is a noun.

Words near baihua in the dictionary

  1. baignoire
  2. baignoires
  3. baignoirs
  4. Baigs
  5. baihe
  6. baihua
  7. Baiima
  8. baiji
  9. baijis
  10. baijiu
  11. baiju

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