Standard Chinese

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Standard Chinese

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Compare Chinese 現代標準漢語／现代标准汉语 (xiàndài biāozhǔn hànyǔ, “Modern Standard Chinese”).

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uncountable Synonym of Standard Mandarin. The symbols (and short descriptions) used for all these tones are abstractions intended to describe the general appearance of the tones in two languages, Standard Chinese and Cantonese....We cannot say that a particular tone has certain frequency values. The Standard Chinese examples were spoken by
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@misc{standard_chinese_2026,
  title = {Standard Chinese},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/standard%20chinese},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}