mandarin dialect

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

   SynonymsMandarinMandarin ChineseBeijing dialect

   BroaderChinese

Questions about mandarin dialect

What does mandarin dialect mean?

mandarin dialect means "the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China".

What is another word for mandarin dialect?

Close synonyms include Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, Beijing dialect. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mandarin dialect a common word?

mandarin dialect is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.