Dialect in Chinese
dialect · HSK 6
方言
- 方 square
- 言 words
Counted with 种: 一种方言
他说的是家乡方言，我听不懂。 He's speaking his hometown dialect, and I can't understand it.
More words with 方 or 言
How do you say dialect in Chinese?
Dialect in Chinese is 方言 (fāng yán).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
Our own dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Greetings: hello, good morning and goodbye. Measure words: the classifier for any noun. Tone practice: say a word and see your tones. Read any Mandarin: point at a word for its meaning.
Meanings from our own dictionary. Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.