ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Baihua

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Baihua is a noun meaning Vernacular Chinese, as opposed to Classical Chinese.

Meaning

Vernacular Chinese, as opposed to Classical Chinese.

Example Sentences

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wenyan, jianhuazi, verb-object, putonghua, guoxue, hanzi.

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