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BEIJING DIALECT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China
Synonyms:
Beijing dialect; Mandarin; Mandarin Chinese; Mandarin dialect
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Beijing 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)