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Standard Chinese
standard form of the Chinese language
Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi
test of Standard Chinese language proficiency of the People's Republic of China, for non-native Chinese speakers
written vernacular Chinese
forms of written Chinese based on the varieties of Chinese spoken throughout China, as opposed to Classical Chinese
Standard Chinese phonology
sounds used in modern standard Mandarin Chinese
Promotion of Putonghua
campaigns to shift Chinese dialects to Standard Mandarin
Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language
Taiwan's test of Mandarin proficiency for non-native speakers
EFEO Chinese transcription
Romanization system for Mandarin for the French-speaking world
Chinese Language Standardisation Council of Malaysia
Old National Pronunciation
system set up in 1913 for the phonology of standard Chinese, based on Beijing dialect, influenced by older forms of Mandarin and Wu, containing initials /v/, /ŋ/, /ɲ/, preserving the “round-sharp distinction” and the checked tone; abandoned by 1926