普通话水平测试
Traditional form:
普通話水平測試
Pinyin (reading):
Pǔtōnghuà Shuǐpíng Cèshì
Definitions:
- Putonghua Proficiency Test, an official test of spoken fluency in Standard Chinese for native speakers of Chinese languages, developed in the PRC in 1994
Characters:
- 普 - widespread, universal, general
- 通 - to pass through, to open, to connect; to communicate; common
- 话 - talk, speech; language, dialect
- 水 - water, liquid, lotion, juice
- 平 - flat, level, even; peaceful
- 测 - to survey, to measure; to estimate, to conjecture
- 试 - to try, to experiment; exam, test
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