官话

See also: 官話

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 官话 – see 官話 (“Mandarin; Guanhua (group of Northern Chinese dialects including Putonghua (Standard Chinese)); bureaucratic gibberish; high-sounding but insincere words; officialese”). (This term, 官话, is the simplified form of 官話.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.