baihua
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]baihua (uncountable)
- Vernacular Chinese, as opposed to Classical Chinese
- 2004, Michael Lackner, Natascha Vittinghoff, Mapping Meanings: The Field of New Learning in Late Qing China, BRILL, →ISBN, page 280:
- The first baihua-journals until about 1901 contained mainly articles and news, which had been originally written in wenyan and were now translated into the vernacular language.