Beijing Dialect (Noun)
Meaning
The dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- Mandarin Chinese is the standardized version of the Beijing dialect.
- As a Chinese major in college, Emily became fascinated with the differences between the Beijing dialect and Cantonese.
- During his tenure in the country, Dr. Zhang spent most of his time learning and analyzing the variations within the Beijing dialect.
- Traditional songs written in the Beijing dialect provided scholars a way to reconstruct older phonologies.
- Kirk watched reruns of mainland China shows recorded with spoken Mandarin mostly representative of Beijing dialect everyday in March and had her mouth going following, during several Mandarin reverb experiments; "putonghuaspells gakido mandao vynna--"(Modern: kku! Xuen Jokyu ha huila ren-ir --You practice.)