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Written vernacular Chinese
Traditional Chinese
白話文
Simplified Chinese
白话文
Hanyu Pinyin
báihuàwén
Literal meaning
plain speech writing
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
báihuàwén
Bopomofo
ㄅㄞˊㄏㄨㄚˋㄨㄣˊ
Wade–Giles
pai2-hua4 wen2
Wu
Romanization
bah入 gho去 ven
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
baahk wá màn
Jyutping
baak6 waa2/6 man4
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ
pe̍h-oē bûn
Written vernacular Chinese, also known as baihua, comprises forms of written Chinese based on the vernacular varieties of the language spoken throughout China. It is contrasted with Literary Chinese, which was the predominant written form of the language in imperial China until the early 20th century.[1]
A style based on vernacular Mandarin Chinese was used in novels by Ming and Qing dynasty authors, and was later refined by intellectuals associated with the May Fourth Movement. This form corresponds to spoken Standard Chinese, but is the standard form of writing used by speakers of all varieties of Chinese throughout mainland China, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Singapore. It is commonly called Standard Written Chinese or Modern Written Chinese to distinguish it from spoken vernaculars and other written vernaculars, like written Cantonese and written Hokkien.
^"The centuries-old three-way opposition between classical written Chinese, vernacular written Chinese, and vernacular spoken Chinese represents an instance of diglossia." (Jacob Mey, Concise encyclopedia of pragmatics, Elsevier, 1998:221. ISBN 978-0-08-042992-2.)
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