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BEIJING DIALECT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Beijing dialect mean? 

BEIJING DIALECT (noun)
  The noun BEIJING DIALECT has 1 sense:

1. the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of Chinaplay

  Familiarity information: BEIJING DIALECT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BEIJING DIALECT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Beijing dialect; Mandarin; Mandarin Chinese; Mandarin dialect

Hypernyms ("Beijing dialect" is a kind of...):

Chinese (any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system)


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