SHANGHAI DIALECT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Shanghai dialect mean? 

• SHANGHAI DIALECT (noun)
  The noun SHANGHAI DIALECT has 1 sense:

1. a dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHANGHAI DIALECT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Shanghai dialect; Wu; Wu dialect

Hypernyms ("Shanghai 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)