What does Chinese mean?

Chinese (Hànyǔ incarnation), also known as Mandarin, Mandarin and Chinese, is the official language of China, with more than 65.438+0.5 billion users, belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is also one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Mainly distributed in China (Chinese mainland and Taiwan Province Province), Singapore, Malaysia, and overseas Chinese communities in Myanmar, Thailand, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and other countries.

Chinese is an analytical language with three to fifteen tones. Chinese characters are the writing system of Chinese, and they are symbols, which not only express meaning, but also have certain phonetic functions. Chinese includes written language and spoken language. Written ancient Chinese is called classical Chinese, and modern written Chinese generally refers to modern standard Chinese.

Modern Chinese can be divided into standard language and dialect. Modern Putonghua takes Beijing dialect as the standard pronunciation, northern dialect as the basic dialect, and typical modern vernacular as the grammatical norm. There are four tones, and the online Xinhua dictionary has now included 20,959 Chinese characters and 520,000 words.