- (Standard) Mandarin: the Chinese "dialect" that most westerner learns.
- Chinese: languages such as mandarin, min, yue, which are not necessary mutually comprehensible. For example, there are eight tones in zh-min-nan, compared to four in standard mandarin. The grammar, common words and idioms are also somewhat different, although sloppy translations are unifying the grammar of zh-min-nan and mandarin in Taiwan.
- SC, TC: They both refer to Standard Mandarin in most contexts, but different script and words are used. Mostly mutually comprehensible disregarding political issues. However, these two terms can also refer to the script (simplified vs. traditional) themselves. Note that TC shouldn't be mapped to zh-tw, since zh-tw and zh-hk are no less different that en-us and en-gb.
this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2025
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