Shanghainese
Shanghai's native tongue
Shanghainese refers to anything from Shanghai, China's largest city and financial center.
Most often it describes the Wu Chinese dialect spoken there, distinct from Mandarin and not mutually intelligible with it: My grandmother speaks Shanghainese at home.
It also refers to people from Shanghai or their culture: The Shanghainese are known for their business acumen.
Distinct sound qualities
- SuzhouHistoric Chinese garden city
- softYielding to touch
- melodicMusically pleasing to hear
- voicedExpressed in speech
consonants · pronunciation · intonation · fluency · colloquial · vernacular · slang · expressions
Of this area
- nativeOriginating from a place
- residentOne who inhabits
- urbaniteMetropolitan resident
- cosmopolitanCulturally sophisticated, internationally fluent
diaspora · emigrant · overseas · community · pride · heritage · ancestry · roots
Chinese sheath dress
- hairy crabBristle-covered freshwater crustacean
- jazzImprovisational American music genre
- art decoGeometric interwar design movement
- concessionsThings granted or yielded
cosmopolitan · sophistication · nostalgia · glamour · 1930s · modernity · elegance
tones
Distinct sound qualities
voiced · consonants · pronunciation · intonation · fluency · colloquial · vernacular · slang · expressions · idioms
local
Of this area
cosmopolitan · diaspora · emigrant · overseas · community · pride · heritage · ancestry · roots · generations
cheongsam
Chinese sheath dress
- hairy crabBristle-covered freshwater crustacean
- jazzImprovisational American music genre
- art decoGeometric interwar design movement
concessions · cosmopolitan · sophistication · nostalgia · glamour · 1930s · modernity · elegance
Chinese
Of that Asian nation