HSK 4 HSK V2
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普通话

/ pǔ tōng huà  /
Strokes

Collocation

1
说普通话
2
讲普通话
3
会普通话
4
普及普通话
5
普通话考试
6
标准的普通话

Definition

普通话 is a Noun, which means [ putonghua; common speech (of the Chinese language); standard Chinese pronunciation ].

 

Example

As a Noun
1
de
tōnghuà
普通话
shuō
de
hěn
biāozhǔn
标准
  

She speaks Mandarin to a standard standard.

2
shì
guǎngdōng
广东
rén
  
,
huì
jiǎng
guǎngdōnghuà
广东话
tōnghuà
普通话

He is cantonese and can speak Cantonese and Mandarin.

3
jiǎng
de
tōnghuà
普通话
fāngyán
方言
kǒuyīn
口音
hěn
chóng
  
,
tīng
dǒng
  

He speaks Mandarin with a strong accent that I can't understand.

4
Zhōngguó
中国
zhí
一直
zài
普及
tōnghuà
普通话
  

Mandarin has been popular in China.

5
tōnghuà
普通话
de
zuòyòng
作用
jiùshì
就是
wèile
为了
ràng
tóng
不同
fāng
地方
de
rén
dōu
tīng
de
dǒng
  

The role of Putonghua is to make it understood by people in different places.

6
zěnme
怎么
néng
shuō
zhème
这么
liú
流利
de
tōnghuà
普通话
  
?

How can you speak such fluent Mandarin?

7
guǎn
不管
dào
zhōngguó
中国
ge
哪个
fāng
地方
  
,
shuō
tōnghuà
普通话
dōu
méi
wèn
问题
  

No matter where you go in China, it's no problem to speak Mandarin.

8
dào
遇到
shízài
实在
huì
不会
shuō
tōnghuà
普通话
de
rén
  
,
jiù
不得不
qǐng
men
他们
yòng
xiě
xiàlai
下来
  
,
kàn
hàn
汉字
jiù
míngbai
明白
le

When I met people who really couldn't speak Mandarin, I had to ask them to write it down with a pen.