普通话

普通話
pǔtōnghuà
  1. Mandarin (common language)
  2. Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language)
  3. ordinary speech

CEDICT

Entry Composition

1 普通 pǔtōng
  1. common
  2. ordinary
  3. general
  4. average
=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