Mandarin ChineseBranch of the Chinese language familyNorthern ChineseSimplified Chinese北方话Traditional Chinese北方話Literal meaningNorthern speechThis article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper , you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see .A speaker from Tanghe (Central Plains Mandarin)Mandarin ( ) is the largest branch of the Sinitic languages.
Chinese languageChinese (spoken: simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ, written: 中文; Zhōngwén) is a collection of language varieties containing almost all Sinitic languages except Macro-Bai languages, natively spoken by the Han Chinese and some ethnic minorities in Greater China, as well as by communities of the overseas Chinese.
Varieties of ChineseThere 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 mountainous southeast part of mainland China. The varieties are typically classified into ten primary groups: Mandarin, Jin, Wu, Hui, Min, Xiang, Gan, Hakka, Yue, and Pinghua though some varieties remain unclassified.
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ShanxiProvince in North ChinaProvince in ChinaShanxi is a province in North China. Its capital and largest city is Taiyuan, and its next most populated prefecture-level cities are Changzhi and Datong. The province's one-character abbreviation is 晋 (Jìn), after the state of Jin that existed there during the Spring and Autumn period (c. 770 – c. 481 BC).
ShaanxiShaanxi is a province in Northwestern China. It borders the province-level divisions of Inner Mongolia to the north; Shanxi and Henan to the east; Hubei, Chongqing, and Sichuan to the south; and Gansu and Ningxia to the west. Shaanxi covers an area of over 205,000 km (79,000 sq mi) with about 37 million people, the 16th-largest in China.Traditional Chinese charactersTraditional Chinese characters are one of two standardized character sets used to write the Chinese language, with the other being simplified characters. Traditional characters predominated in written Chinese, the historical lingua franca of East Asia, until the mid-20th century. Today, they are used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, as well as in most overseas Chinese communities outside of Southeast Asia.
Inner MongoliaAutonomous region of ChinaAutonomous region in ChinaInner Mongolia Autonomous RegionSimplified Chinese内蒙古自治区Traditional Chinese內蒙古自治區Hanyu PinyinNèiměnggǔ ZìzhìqūMongolian nameMongolian CyrillicӨвөр МонголMongolian scriptᠦᠪᠦᠷᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯUyghur nameUyghurئىچكى موڭغۇل ئاپتونوم رايونىManchu nameManchu scriptᡩᠣᡵᡤᡳᠮᠣᠩᡤᠣRomanizationDorgi monggoBuryat nameBuryatҮбэр МонголÜber MongolKyrgyz nameKyrgyzىچكى مونعولىياIchki MongoliaKazakh nameKazakhىشكى موڭعولياIşkı MoñğoliaTuvan nameTuvanÖvür Mool oranӨвүр Моол оранStandard Tibetan nameStandard Tibetanནང་སོག་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས།Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR), is an autonomous region of China.
HenanAbbreviationChinese豫Henan is a province in Central China. Henan is China's third-most populous province and the most populous among inland provinces, with a population of over 99 million as of 2020. The area around Henan was historically known as the Central Plains (Zhongyuan) and is considered the core region of Chinese cultural history.Four of the historical capitals of China, Luoyang, Anyang, Kaifeng and Zhengzhou, are in Henan.HebeiProvince in North ChinaProvince in ChinaAbbreviationChinese冀Zhili ProvinceTraditional Chinese直隸省Simplified Chinese直隶省Literal meaningDirectly ruledHebei is a province in North China. It is China's sixth-most populous province, with a population of over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital and largest city.
ChinaCountry in East AsiaChina, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is divided into 33 province-level divisions, including two special administrative regions. Beijing is the capital, while Shanghai is the most populous city by urban area. Its geography features the Central Plain, major rivers such as the Yangtze and Yellow River, deserts, subtropical and temperate forests, plateaus, and mountain ranges such as the Himalayas.
PinyinScheme for the Chinese Phonetic AlphabetSimplified ChineseTraditional ChineseLiteral meaningscheme of spelled Han language sounds This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see .*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.