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For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. Standard Chinese, or Standard Mandarin, is the official modern Chinese spoken language used in mainland China and Taiwan and is one of the four official languages of Singapore. It is based off the Mandarin dialect and should not be confused with other varieties of Chinese .
Classification. Mandarin in the Philippines can be classified into two distinct Mandarin dialects: Standard Mandarin and Colloquial Mandarin.Standard Mandarin is either the standard language of mainland China or Taiwan, while Colloquial Mandarin in the Philippines tends to combine features from Mandarin (simplified Chinese: 华语; traditional Chinese: 華語) and features from Hokkien ...
Mandarin Chinese. Baƙaƙen rubutu. sinograms (en) Lamban rijistar harshe. ISO 639-3. cmn. Glottolog. mand1415 [1] Mandarin Sin ko kawai Mandarin shine yaren gwamnati da ilimi na babban yankin China da Taiwan, tare da sanannun banbance na Hong Kong da Macau inda ake yawan amfani da yaren Sinawa da ake kira Cantonese.
Taiwanese Mandarin, frequently referred to as Guoyu ( Chinese: 國語; pinyin: Guóyǔ; lit. 'National language') or Huayu ( 華語; Huáyǔ; 'Mandarin language'), is the variety of Mandarin Chinese spoken in Taiwan. A large majority of the Taiwanese population is fluent in Mandarin, though many also speak a variety of Min Chinese known as ...
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 ...
Mandarin ( traditional Chinese: 官話; simplified Chinese: 官话; pinyin: Guānhuà; lit. 'official speech') was the common spoken language of administration of the Chinese empire during the Ming and Qing dynasties. It arose as a practical measure, due to the mutual unintelligibility of the varieties of Chinese spoken in different parts of China.
The Traditional Chinese characters for the word huài dàn (坏蛋/壞蛋), a Mandarin Chinese profanity meaning, literally, "bad egg" Profanity in Mandarin Chinese most commonly involves sexual references and scorn of the object's ancestors, especially their mother. Other Mandarin insults accuse people of not being human.
