普通话

普通话 pǔtōnghuà in a sentence

Mandarin (common language)

Full dictionary entry HSK 4 2 sentences

普通话 (pǔtōnghuà) means Mandarin (common language). Below are 2 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

请用 普通话 回答问题。

Qǐng yòng pǔtōnghuà huídá wèntí.

Please answer the question in Mandarin.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 普通话

他的 普通话 说得很标准。

Tā de pǔtōnghuà shuō de hěn biāozhǔn.

He speaks very standard Mandarin.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 普通话

Questions about 普通话

How is 普通话 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 普通话 (pǔtōnghuà, "Mandarin (common language)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 普通话 an HSK word?

Yes — 普通话 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.

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The dictionary page for 普通话 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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