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SHANGHAI DIALECT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Shanghai dialect mean?
• SHANGHAI DIALECT (noun)
The noun SHANGHAI DIALECT has 1 sense:
1. a dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta
Familiarity information: SHANGHAI DIALECT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Shanghai dialect; Wu; Wu dialect
Hypernyms ("Shanghai dialect" is a kind of...):
Chinese (any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system)
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