普通話

Mandarin (common language) / Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language) / ordinary speech

Characters and words in 普通話

general / popular / everywhere / universal

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 斯普特尼克, Sputnik the satellite.

Petra Penguin is really angry at the sun for heating up earth's poles. In the space station she tries to kill the sun with a combine harvester, but the sun defends itself by flinging Sputnik replicas at Petra.
common / ordinary / general / average
to go through / to know well / (suffix) expert / to connect / to communicate / open / to clear / classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc

= + : In front of the engine a pile of yongzhong bells were blocking the way. Tommy Turtle attended to the matter and cleared the way. He lined the bells up to two lines, put on his gladiator sandals and now marches right through this path screened by walls on two sides like a roman general.
classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc)
to hold a conversation / to talk over the telephone / phone call
dialect / language / spoken words / speech / talk / words / conversation / what sb said / CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]

= + : Helga Horse can't talk at all right now, because her tongue is stuck on an advertisement column in the ashram's bathroom. In an ad on the advertising column, two people were discussing a depicted beautiful carrot; Helga thought it looked so tasty she had to lick it, and now her tongue is stuck.

Words with 普通話

(coll.) Mandarin Chinese spoken with a thick regional accent
Putonghua Proficiency Test, an official test of spoken fluency in Standard Chinese for native speakers of Chinese languages, developed in the PRC in 1994

Sentences with 普通話

普通話 currently does not appear in any sentence.