Chinese symbol for “mandarin”
官话
guān huà
Traditional: 官話
"officialese"; bureaucratic language; Mandarin
The closest CC-CEDICT match for mandarin is 官话 (guān huà), defined as: "officialese"; bureaucratic language; Mandarin.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 官话.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 官方 | guān fāng | government; official (approved or issued by an authority) |
| 官员 (官員) | guān yuán | official (in an organization or government); administrator |
| 法官 | fǎ guān | judge (in court) |
| 官网 (官網) | guān wǎng | official website (abbr. for 官方网站 (guān fāng wǎng zhàn)) |
| 军官 (軍官) | jūn guān | officer (military) |
| 器官 | qì guān | (physiology) organ; apparatus |
| 电话 (電話) | diàn huà | telephone; measure word: 部 (bù) |
| 的话 (的話) | de huà | if (coming after a conditional clause) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “mandarin”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.