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普通话

pǔ tōng huà
HSK 2.0 Level 3 HSK 3.0 Level 2

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Definitions

  1. 1. Mandarin (common language)
  2. 2. Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language)
  3. 3. ordinary speech

Words Containing 普通话

塑料普通话
sù liào pǔ tōng huà

(coll.) Mandarin Chinese spoken with a thick regional accent

普通话水平测试
pǔ tōng huà shuǐ píng cè shì

Putonghua Proficiency Test, an official test of spoken fluency in Standard Chinese for native speakers of Chinese languages, developed in the PRC in 1994

Child Words of 普通话

普通
pǔ tōng

common

普
pǔ

general

话
huà

dialect

通话
tōng huà

to talk over the telephone

通
tòng

classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc)