noun
Qing Mandarin; official language of the Qing dynasty
Historical term for the standard Chinese spoken by officials during the Qing dynasty, based on the Beijing dialect.
清朝の官僚は官話を使って意思疎通を図った。
Officials of the Qing dynasty used Qing Mandarin to communicate with each other.
noun
Mandarin Chinese; Mandarin
Refers to the northern and southwestern branch of Chinese, including Standard Mandarin. In modern contexts, 官話 is less common than 北京語 or 標準中国語.
官話は中国語の方言グループの一つで、北方を中心に広く話されている。
Mandarin is one of the dialect groups of Chinese, widely spoken mainly in the north.
From Chinese 官話 (guānhuà), literally 'official speech'. The term was adopted into Japanese to refer to the standard language of Chinese officials.