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pai-hua

pai-hua is the alternative form of baihua.

Meaning of baihua

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

Questions about pai-hua

What is pai-hua the alternative form of?
Pai-hua is the alternative form of baihua.

Words near pai-hua in the dictionary

  1. pai gow
  2. pai gow poker
  3. pai huang gua
  4. pai kia
  5. Pai Marire
  6. pai-hua
  7. pai-lou
  8. pai-lous
  9. Paia
  10. paiban
  11. Paibian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pai-hua (page history and authors); baihua (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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