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官话

guān huà

2-character word Traditional 官話

What 官话 means

1. "officialese"
2. bureaucratic language
3. Mandarin

The characters in 官话

• 官guāngovernment official; governmental; official
• 话huàdialect; language; spoken words

Example sentences

• 今年我学会我的头五百个官话单词。
  Jīnnián wǒ xuéhuì wǒ de tóu wǔ bǎi gè guānhuà dāncí.
  This year, I learnt my first 500 words in Mandarin.
• 我会普通话、西南官话、吴语和西班牙语。
  Wǒ huì pǔtōnghuà, xīnán guānhuà, Wúyǔ hé Xībānyáyǔ.
  I can speak Standard Chinese (Putonghua), Southwestern Mandarin, Wu Chinese, and Spanish.

Words containing 官话

• 打官话dǎ guān huàto talk officiously; to assume the air of a functionary; to talk in official jargon
• 西南官话xī nán guān huàSouthwestern Mandarin, dialect group of Mandarin spoken primarily in southwestern China
• 江淮官话Jiāng Huái guān huàJianghuai Mandarin