省話

See also: 省话

Chinese

		comprehend; introspect; visit comprehend; introspect; visit; frugal; save; to omit; to leave out; to save (money); province	spoken words; speech; dialect spoken words; speech; dialect; language; talk; conversation; what someone said
trad. (省話)		省	話
simp. (省话)		省	话
Literally: “provincial speech”.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shěnghuà

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄥˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ
Cantonese
(Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): saang² waa^6-2

(Taishan, Wiktionary): sang² va^5*

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shěnghuà
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄥˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shěnghuà
  - Wade–Giles: shêng³-hua⁴
  - Yale: shěng-hwà
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheenghuah
  - Palladius: шэнхуа (šɛnxua)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɤŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: saang² waa^6-2
  - Yale: sáang wá
  - Cantonese Pinyin: saang² waa^6-2
  - Guangdong Romanization: sang² wa^6-2
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːŋ³⁵ waː²²⁻³⁵/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
  - Wiktionary: sang² va^5*
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /saŋ⁵⁵ va³²⁻³²⁵/

Noun

省話

(Guangdong, especially outside of Guangzhou, colloquial) standard Cantonese; Guangzhou dialect of Cantonese
- 凡程度已高，通曉省話國語者，可無需此。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  凡程度已高，通晓省话国语者，可无需此。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: 1916, 李澹愚, 林仲堅, and 李月華, 《廣話國語一貫未定稿·凡例》
  Fán chéngdù yǐ gāo, tōngxiǎo shěnghuà guóyǔ zhě, kě wúxū cǐ. [Pinyin]
  Those who already have a high level of knowledge in Cantonese and Mandarin do not need this.