MANDARIN DIALECT
Dictionary entry overview: What does Mandarin dialect mean? • MANDARIN DIALECT (noun)
The noun MANDARIN DIALECT has 1 sense:
1. the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China
Familiarity information: MANDARIN DIALECT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• MANDARIN DIALECT (noun)
Meaning:
The dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Beijing dialect; Mandarin Chinese; Mandarin dialect; Mandarin
Hypernyms ("Mandarin dialect" is a kind of...):
Chinese (any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system)
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