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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
官话
"officialese"
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
"officialese"
02
bureaucratic language
03
Mandarin
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 官话 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 官话 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
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COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 官话.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 官话.
Directly before
- 属于官话1
- 五百个官话1
- 西南官话1
- 南平官话1
Directly after
- 官话一类1
- 官话单词1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 官话
What does 官话 mean in Chinese?
官话 (guānhuà) means "officialese".
How do you pronounce 官话?
官话 is pronounced guānhuà.
Is 官话 an HSK word?
官话 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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