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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 普通话

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
普通话 pǔ tōng huà - Mandarin (common language)
- Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language)
- ordinary speech

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
3 2 21,308 8,288 5,825

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
- general
- popular
- everywhere
- universal
tōng- to go through
- to know well
- (suffix) expert
- to connect
- to communicate
- open
- to clear
- classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc
tòng- classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc)
huà- dialect
- language
- spoken words
- speech
- talk
- words
- conversation
- what sb said
- CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]
huà- old variant of 話|话[hua4]

Other Words Containing 普通话

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
普通话 3 2 21,308 8,288 5,825