Guoyu

E57273

Guoyu is the official standardized form of the Chinese language used in mainland China and other Chinese-speaking regions.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Guoyu canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf official language standard
spoken language
standardized form of the Chinese language
basedOnDialect Beijing dialect of Mandarin
grammarBasedOn northern Mandarin dialects
hasAlternativeName Mandarin Chinese
Standard Chinese
surface form: Modern Standard Mandarin

Mandarin Chinese
surface form: Putonghua

Standard Chinese
hasRomanizationSystem Hanyu Pinyin
Tongyong Pinyin
Wade–Giles
historicalWritingDirection top-to-bottom, right-to-left columns
ISO639-1Code zh
ISO639-3Code cmn
isUNOfficialLanguage true
languageFamily Chinese language
surface form: Sinitic languages
lexiconInfluencedBy Classical Chinese
various Mandarin dialects
numberOfTonesInStandard 4 lexical tones plus neutral tone
officialStatusIn China
surface form: People's Republic of China

Republic of China
surface form: Republic of China (Taiwan)

Singapore
United Nations
China
surface form: mainland China
phonologyBasedOn Beijing pronunciation
primaryRegion East Asia
Greater China
primaryScript Simplified Chinese characters
Traditional Chinese characters
regulatingBody Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China
surface form: Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China

National Language Commission of the PRC
surface form: National Language Commission of the People's Republic of China
spokenBy Han Chinese
ethnic minorities in China
standardizationPeriod 20th century
subfamily Mandarin
typologicalFeature analytic language
tone language
usedAs lingua franca in Chinese-speaking communities
usedAsMediumOfInstructionIn many overseas Chinese schools
schools in mainland China
usedFor interregional communication in China
usedIn education
formal communication
government
media
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystem Chinese characters

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.