Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word PUTONGHUA

Definitions of 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.
2. Alternative letter-case form of Putonghua.

Examples of Using PUTONGHUA in a Sentence

• In addition they also undergo training in anti-irregular military, basic Trauma Life Support and English and Putonghua fluency, CBRN defense, climbing in different situations using ropes, combat and patrolling in urban areas, control crowd, counterintelligence, counterterrorism, defusing and disposal of bombs, fast-roping, firearms, hand-to-hand combat, HUMINT, physical and tactical training, marksmanship, reconnaissance in hostile environments, SERE, tactical emergency medical, tactical driving, and undercover.
• There are discrepancies between the Bopomofo tables and the pinyin table due to some minor differences between the Mainland standard, putonghua, and the Taiwanese standard, guoyu, in the standard readings of characters.
• Notable characteristics of Guoyu as is commonly spoken in Taiwan include its somewhat different tonal qualities compared to Putonghua, the lack of the erhua phenomenon, and the lack of retroflex consonants (with zh-, ch-, sh- being pronounced like z-, c-, and s-) in most contexts.
• There are differences between what syllables are listed in bopomofo tables and those that are listed in some pinyin tables, due to the standardisation differences of a few characters between the mainland standard Putonghua and the Taiwanese standard Guoyu.
• com used to ship a product called KeyTip Putonghua Reader which worked similarly; it contained 120 Megabytes of sound recordings (GSM-compressed to 40 Megabytes in the evaluation version), comprising 10,000 multi-syllable dictionary words plus single-syllable recordings in 6 different prosodies (4 tones, neutral tone, and an extra third-tone recording for use at the end of a phrase).
• Linguists speculate that changes to pitch countours over time also removed the original motivation for T3 sandhi in the Beijing dialect underlying modern Standard Mandarin (putonghua), but the sandhi was retained.

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