| 释义 |
‖ Kuo-yü|kuojy|
Also Guoryu, Kuoyu.
[Chin., lit. ‘national language’.]
The name given to the Chinese ‘national tongue’, a form of Mandarin adopted for official use.
1932Guoryu [see Kuan, Kwan 1]. 1934in Webster. 1954Pei & Gaynor Dict. Ling. 116 Kuo-yü, the new ‘national tongue’ of China, based on the Peiping dialect of North Mandarin; now estimated to be used by about 300,000,000 persons. 1957B.B.C. Handbook 132 There were large audiences to the relays by Radio Hong Kong of BBC programmes in Cantonese, English, and Kuoyü. 1964New Statesman 10 Apr. 581/4 (Advt.), Applicants must be native Kuoyu speakers. 1968D. Torr Treason Line 45 He remembered just enough of the Kuo-yü he had learnt in Chungking. 1969J. M. Gullick Malaysia i. 29 The universal teaching in Chinese schools of the national Kuo-Yu dialect should in time provide a lingua franca. |