官话

官話
guānhuà
  1. "officialese"
  2. bureaucratic language
  3. Mandarin

CEDICT

  1. Mandarin; Guanhua (group of Northern Chinese dialects including Putonghua (Standard Chinese))
  2. bureaucratic gibberish; high-sounding but insincere words; officialese

Wiktionary

  1. 官场中的门面话。
  2. 国语的旧称。
  3. 公共通用的语言。如：「北方官话」、「西北官话」、「西南官话」、「下江官话」　。

重編國語辭典

  1. 公共通用的语言
  2. 官场中的门面话
  3. 汉语的一支，是汉语诸变体中分布最广的一种；明清以来多指以北京音为代表的北方话

維基詞典

Entry Composition

1 官 guān
  1. government official
  2. governmental
  3. official
  4. public
  5. organ of the body

classifier: 個
=2 话 huà
  1. dialect
  2. language
  3. spoken words
  4. speech
  5. talk
  6. words
  7. conversation
  8. what sb said

classifiers: 種, 席, 句, 口, 番
=2 话 huà old variant of 话 huà

Containing this entry

打官话 dǎguānhuà
  1. to talk officiously
  2. to assume the air of a functionary
  3. to talk in official jargon
江淮官话 Jiāng Huáiguānhuà Jianghuai Mandarin
西南官话 xīnánguānhuà Southwestern Mandarin, dialect group of Mandarin spoken primarily in southwestern China
蓝青官话 lánqīngguānhuà
冀鲁官话 Jì-Lǔ Guānhuà
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Related entries

普通话 pǔtōnghuà
  1. Mandarin (common language)
  2. Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language)
  3. ordinary speech
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Source: Tatoeba