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普通话

pǔ tōng huà

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 4 3-character word Traditional 普通話

普通话 (pǔ tōng huà) means "Mandarin (common language)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 普通话 means

1. Putonghua; standard Mandarin

The characters in 普通话

• 普pǔgeneral; popular; everywhere
• 通tōngto go through; to know well; (suffix) expert
• 话huàdialect; language; spoken words

Example sentences

• 你会讲普通话吗？
  Can you speak Mandarin?
• 您会讲普通话吗？
  Can you speak Mandarin?
• 我明年想学普通话。
  I want to learn Chinese next year.
• 标准汉语又称普通话。
  Standard Chinese is also called Mandarin.
• 上海人普通话说得怎幺样？
  What does Shanghai people's Mandarin sound like?
• 普通话和北京话是不同的。
  "Putonghua" and "Beijinghua" are not the same.

Words starting with 普通话

• 普通话水平测试Pǔ tōng huà Shuǐ píng Cè shìPutonghua Proficiency Test, an official test of spoken fluency in Standard Chinese for…

Words containing 普通话

• 塑料普通话sù liào pǔ tōng huà(colloquial) bad or awkward Mandarin…

Where 普通话 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of School, Study & Language (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read pǔ tōng huà correctly.
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