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p'u-t'ung-hua

p'u-t'ung-hua is the alternative form of Putonghua.

Meaning of Putonghua

Proper noun

Putonghua

  1. Standard Mandarin, the official language of the People's Republic of China; the state-designated national speech of the Han nationality using Beijing pronunciation as the standard pronunciation, Beijing speech as the basic dialect, and the model writing of the modern vernacular prose as the norm for grammar.
    • As a mainland China national, the counter for our trial was fluent in English, Putonghua, and the Sichuan dialect, and was familiar with a number of other major Chinese languages such as Cantonese and Hakka.2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 10

Origin of p'u-t'ung-hua

From Mandarin 普通話 /普通话 (pǔtōnghuà) Wade–Giles romanization: pʻu³-tʻung¹-hua⁴.

Questions about p'u-t'ung-hua

What is p'u-t'ung-hua the alternative form of?
P'u-t'ung-hua is the alternative form of Putonghua.

Words near p'u-t'ung-hua in the dictionary

  1. p'taters
  2. p'tcha
  3. P'town
  4. P'u-k'ou
  5. P'u-t'ien
  6. p'u-t'ung-hua
  7. P'u-tung
  8. P'u-yang
  9. P'urhépecha
  10. p(doom)
  11. p**do

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Adapted from Wiktionary: p'u-t'ung-hua (page history and authors); Putonghua (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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