普通话普通話

普通话普通話 in English

pǔ tōng huà noun HSK4: Mandarin (common language) / Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language) / ordinary speech

Character breakdown

普 pǔ general
通 tōng to go through
话諙 huà dialect

Stroke order

Le caractère 普 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 普

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 话 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 话

Le caractère 話 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

普

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 4 forms

通

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

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.
这不是普通话，而是上海话。

This isn't Mandarin, it's Shanghainese.

All example sentences with 普通话

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