西南官话

西南官話

Xīnán Guānhuà

noun

Meanings

1 Southwestern Mandarin, the Mandarin dialects of Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan, Guizhou and nearby areas

Characters

speech (官话 = Mandarin)

Examples

HSK 5

西南官话和普通话差别不大，北方人多听几天就能听懂。

Xīnán Guānhuà hé Pǔtōnghuà chābié bú dà, běifāngrén duō tīng jǐ tiān jiù néng tīngdǒng.

Southwestern Mandarin isn't very different from standard Mandarin, so northerners can follow it after a few days of listening.

HSK 7-9

四川话属于西南官话。

Sìchuānhuà shǔyú Xīnán Guānhuà.

Sichuanese belongs to Southwestern Mandarin.

Tips

culture

One of the eight groups of Mandarin and one of the largest, with over 200 million speakers in Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan, Guizhou and parts of Hubei, Hunan and Guangxi; the dialect of Wuhan belongs to it too. Its grammar is close to standard Mandarin, which is why 四川话 is easy for other Chinese to follow, unlike Cantonese.

Stroke Order

西 xī

南 nán

官 guān

话 huà