Difference between revisions of "Language/Mandarin-chinese/Vocabulary/Difference-between-漢語-and-中文"
< Language | Mandarin-chinese | Vocabulary
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
| Line 3: | Line 3: | ||
漢語/汉语 means the language(s) and dialects spoken (and written) by Han people. | 漢語/汉语 means the language(s) and dialects spoken (and written) by Han people. | ||
中文 means the language(s) and dialects written (and spoken) by Chinese, and may also by minority. This 中 is ambiguous, because it may | 中文 means the language(s) and dialects written (and spoken) by Chinese, and may also by minority. This 中 is ambiguous, because it may refers to Han or Chinese of all ethnic groups, People's Republic of China or Republic of China or the whole China. | ||
Revision as of 17:30, 30 May 2017
Seeing the two words, people usually consider them to be the same, but they actually have different meaing.
漢語/汉语 means the language(s) and dialects spoken (and written) by Han people.
中文 means the language(s) and dialects written (and spoken) by Chinese, and may also by minority. This 中 is ambiguous, because it may refers to Han or Chinese of all ethnic groups, People's Republic of China or Republic of China or the whole China.