Sentence examples for Guanhua from inspiring English sources
proper noun
Mandarin, group of Northern Chinese dialects including Putonghua (Standard Chinese).
When those run dry, the experienced speaker will seek refuge in the damp, wooly depths of guanhua — the bureaucratic jargon of numbered clauses, of theories firmly upheld and banners held high.
Therefore, he argued, those who wouldn't use Guanhua would, by logical extension, not be able to use public lavatories either.When the Communists seized power in 1949 they happily took over the KMT's language agenda.
One nationalist, worried that Guoyu might be identified with Guanhua, the Mandarin of discredited Qing officialdom, argued that the guan in Guanhua did not mean "official" so much as "public" as in guan cesuo (public lavatory).
Mandarin language, also called Northern Chinese, Chinese (Pinyin) Guanhua ("Officials' Language"), or (Wade-Giles romanization) Kuan-hua, the most widely spoken form of Chinese.
Qiao Guanhua died in 1983 at the age of 70.
In 1976, after Mao's death, the Chinese foreign minister, Qiao Guanhua, was dismissed because of accusations that he had close ties to the notorious Gang of Four, which ruled in Mao's name during his final years.
She then married Qiao Guanhua.
