省話

See also: 省话

Chinese

		comprehend; introspect; visit comprehend; introspect; visit; frugal; save; to omit; to leave out; to save (money); province	spoken words; speech; dialect spoken words; speech; dialect; language; talk; conversation; what someone said
trad. (省話)		省	話
simp. (省话)		省	话
Literally: “provincial speech”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shěnghuà

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄥˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): saang² waa^6-2

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): sang² va^5*

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shěnghuà
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄥˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shěnghuà
    • Wade–Giles: shêng³-hua⁴
    • Yale: shěng-hwà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheenghuah
    • Palladius: шэнхуа (šɛnxua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɤŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: saang² waa^6-2
    • Yale: sáang wá
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saang² waa^6-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: sang² wa^6-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːŋ³⁵ waː²²⁻³⁵/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: sang² va^5*
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saŋ⁵⁵ va³²⁻³²⁵/

Noun

省話

1. (Guangdong, especially outside of Guangzhou, colloquial) standard Cantonese; Guangzhou dialect of Cantonese

   • 凡程度已高，通曉省話國語者，可無需此。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     凡程度已高，通晓省话国语者，可无需此。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 1916, 李澹愚, 林仲堅, and 李月華, 《廣話國語一貫未定稿·凡例》

     Fán chéngdù yǐ gāo, tōngxiǎo shěnghuà guóyǔ zhě, kě wúxū cǐ. [Pinyin]

     Those who already have a high level of knowledge in Cantonese and Mandarin do not need this.