MANDARIN CHINESE

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 I. (noun) 

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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 ("Mandarin Chinese" 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)

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