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But with Beijing being the capital city as well as the political, economic, cultural and education center of China, more and more new Beijing dialects have been or will be accepted as Mandarin or standard Chinese language. The other dialects, such as Shanghainese, Cantonese, Hakka etc., have few opportunities to be included into Mandarin or standard Chinese language or be accepted by the whole ...
Like other varieties of Chinese, Standard Chinese is a tonal language with topic-prominent organization and subject–verb–object word order. It has more initial consonants but fewer vowels, final consonants and tones than southern varieties. Standard Chinese is an analytic language, though with many compound words .
The government of the People's Republic of China, established in 1949, continued the effort. In 1955, Guoyu was renamed Putonghua ( 普通話 'common speech'. The Republic of China on Taiwan continues to refer to Standard Chinese as Guoyu. Since then, the standards used in mainland China and Taiwan have diverged somewhat, though they continue ...
Chinese characters. The Table of General Standard Chinese Characters ( Chinese: 通用规范汉字表; pinyin: Tōngyòng Guīfàn Hànzì Biǎo) is the current standard list of 8,105 Chinese characters published by the government of the People's Republic of China and promulgated in June 2013. Of the characters included, 3,500 are in Tier I and ...
Standard Chinese, like all varieties of Chinese, is tonal. This means that in addition to consonants and vowels, the pitch contour of a syllable is used to distinguish words from each other. Many non-native Chinese speakers have difficulties mastering the tones of each character, but correct tonal pronunciation is essential for intelligibility because of the vast number of words in the ...
Homophonic puns in Standard Chinese. A sign for a porridge shop in Wenzhou which puns Wenzhounese people 溫州人 / Wēnzhōurén, altering the second character 州 / zhōu to an exact homophone 粥 / zhōu meaning porridge, giving 溫粥人 (lit. warm-porridge-people) Standard Chinese, like many Sinitic varieties, has a significant number of ...
Standard Chinese is the official language of China. Standard Chinese may also refer to: Written vernacular Chinese, the standard for written Chinese. Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca), the spoken standard of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Mandarin Chinese, the most widely spoken form of dialect on which Standard Chinese is based. Category:
