| 普通话 |
pǔ tōng huà |
Mandarin (common language) / Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language) / ordinary speech |
| 普 |
pǔ |
general / popular / everywhere / universal |
| 普通 |
pǔ tōng |
common / ordinary / general / average |
| 通 |
tōng |
to go through / to know well / (suffix) expert / to connect / to communicate / open / to clear / classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc |
| 通 |
tòng |
classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc) |
| 通话 |
tōng huà |
to hold a conversation / to talk over the telephone / phone call |
| 话 |
huà |
dialect / language / spoken words / speech / talk / words / conversation / what sb said / CL:种,席,句,口,番 |
| 话 |
huà |
old variant of 话 |