Putonghua

See also: putonghua, pǔtōnghuà, and Pǔtōnghuà

English

Alternative forms

• (from Wade-Giles) p'u-t'ung-hua

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌpuːtɒŋˈhwɑː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌputɔŋˈhwɑ/
• (US, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˌputɑŋˈhwɑ/

Proper noun

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.
   • 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:

     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.

Translations

the official language of the People's Republic of China — see also Mandarin

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 普通話／普通话 (pou² tung¹ waa^6-2)

  Mandarin: 普通話／普通话 (zh) (pǔtōnghuà)

  Wu: 普通閒話／普通闲话

• French: putonghua (fr) m
• Japanese: 普通話 (ja) (ふつうわ, futsūwa), 北京語 (ja) (ペキンご, pekingo)
• Korean: 보통화(普通話) (botonghwa)
• Russian: путунхуа́ (ru) m (putunxuá)
• Uyghur: پۇتۇڭخۇا (putungxua), ئورتاق تىل (ortaq til)
• Vietnamese: tiếng Phổ thông (tiếng (vi) + 普通), phổ thông thoại (普通話)
• Zhuang: bujdunghva