Written vernacular Chinese
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Written vernacular Chinese, also known as baihua, comprises forms of written Chinese based on the vernacular varieties of Chinese spoken throughout China. It is contrasted with the more concise Litera
20th-century Literary Chinese writing
Varieties of Chinese
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There are hundreds of local Chinese language varieties forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, many of which are not mutually intelligible. Variation is particularly strong in the more m
Written vernacular Chinese
…Written vernacular Chinese, also known as baihua, comprises forms of written Chinese based on the vernacular varieties of Chinese spoken throughout China. It is contrasted with the more concise Literary Chinese, which was the dominant style of official and scholarly writing in…
A school in Guangdong with writing "Please speak Standard Chinese. Please write standard characters" on the wall.