普通话水平测试

Putonghua Proficiency Test, an official test of spoken fluency in Standard Chinese for native speakers of Chinese languages, developed in the PRC in 1994

dialect / language / spoken words / speech / talk / words / conversation / what sb said / CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]

old variant of 話|话[hua4]

surname Shui

water / river / liquid / beverage / additional charges or income / (of clothes) classifier for number of washes

to test / to try / experiment / examination / test

to go through / to know well / (suffix) expert / to connect / to communicate / open / to clear / classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc

classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc)

to test (machinery etc) / to test (students) / test / quiz / exam / beta (software)

common / ordinary / general / average

surname Ping

flat / level / equal / to tie (make the same score) / to draw (score) / calm / peaceful / abbr. for 平聲|平声[ping2 sheng1]

to hold a conversation / to talk over the telephone / phone call

level (of achievement etc) / standard / horizontal

general / popular / everywhere / universal

to survey / to measure / to conjecture

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