Some Chinese characters were originally fairly concrete pictures of the things they represent. The most popular transliteration system is called Pinyin.
Mandarin can also be written phonetically (that is: written as it is spoken) with the Latin alphabet as you really cannot see the spelling from Hanzi characters. The various concepts are derived from the ideograms by combining them. The Hanzi are ideograms: one character means one idea. Spoken Mandarin uses very many compound words, words that combine meanings the way English does in such terms as "machine gun," "fire truck," "playground," etc. An ordinary dictionary will contain about 10,000 characters. Each Hànzì has its own pronunciation and meaning. Mandarin is written with Chinese characters called Hànzì (漢字 or 汉字) which literally means "Han characters". The others are English, French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic. Standard Mandarin is one of the six official languages at the United Nations. Most people emigrating from the Greater China region now speak Mandarin, while in past centuries most spoke Cantonese or Taishanese, another local Chinese dialect. Mandarin is spoken by over 800 million people around the world, more than any other language. In Taiwan, it is known as Guoyu (国语/國語) meaning "national language." There are some minor differences in these standards. In places such as Malaysia, it is known as Huayu (华语/華語). Schools use a dialect called Standard Mandarin, Putonghua (普通话/普通話) meaning "common (spoken) language" or Hanyu (汉语/漢語) meaning "language of the Han". Although it is based on the Beijing dialect, it is not the same as Beijing dialect.
It is nobody's native language, but a good average between various language forms and a common language everyone can understand and communicate with. Therefore, starting in the 1920s, the Chinese government set up a national language based on the Beijing dialect and on the most widely understood words and pronunciations. The problem is bigger than for a person in Great Britain or the United States to go to Australia. In that big area there are many regional differences in vocabulary, so somebody who moves from Beijing to Yunnan could not understand people there who were speaking their own dialect, Yunnanhua. It spreads wider than any other regional variety, from the whole northern part of China to Yunnan Province in the southwest corner of China. Mandarin is one of five major regional languages of China. Mandarin Chinese, or simply Mandarin, ( / ˈ m æ n d ər ɪ n/ ( listen) simplified Chinese: 官话 traditional Chinese: 官話 pinyin: Guānhuà literally: "speech of officials") is the language of government and education of the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, with the notable exceptions of Hong Kong and Macau where a local dialect of Chinese called Cantonese is more often used. It does not store any personal data.Mandarin area, with Jin (sometimes treated as a separate group) in light green The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly.
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