普通话
Meaning
- Putonghua; standard Mandarin
Example sentence
你会讲普通话吗？
Can you speak Mandarin?
Characters in 普通话
- 普 pǔ general, universal, widespread
- 通 tōng to go through
- 话 huà dialect
普通 common plus 话, speech. The common speech — the name is a claim about reach rather than about correctness.