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putonghua

UK/ˌpuːtɒŋˈhwɑː/US/ˌputɔŋˈhwɑ/

putonghua is the alternative letter-case form of Putonghua.

Proper noun capitalized: Putonghua

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

Synonyms of putonghua

Forms of putonghua

alternative formp'u-t'ung-hua

Origin of putonghua

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 普通話／普通话 (Pǔtōnghuà, literally “common speech”).

Questions about putonghua

What does putonghua mean?
Putonghua means 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.
What is putonghua the alternative letter-case form of?
Putonghua is the alternative letter-case form of Putonghua.
What part of speech is putonghua?
Putonghua is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce putonghua?
Putonghua is pronounced /ˌpuːtɒŋˈhwɑː/ (UK).

Words near putonghua in the dictionary

  1. putoff
  2. putoffs
  3. putoid
  4. putoids
  5. putois
  6. putonghua
  7. putoo
  8. putoranite
  9. putos
  10. putout
  11. putouts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: putonghua (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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