China, as a name of language in English, refers to the subgroup Sinitic languages Sino-Tibetan in Asia. But it can be translated to several Chinese names for the language that covers many different ideas depending on the context.
Firstly, China can be translated as zhongwen generally referring to the language. Zhongwen is also the correct term for the academic discipline in the study of Chinese language and literature, such as zhongwenxi for the Department of Chinese at a university environment.
Secondly, the hanyu word "Han language" used in the context contrasting languages spoken by the nationality of have that 92% of 1.300 million Chinese citizens of the people's Republic with all languages have not spoken in China and the rest of the world. Therefore, foreign students who are now learning Chinese say to go learn hanyu.
Thirdly, when hanyu is a general term for the languages, many of which are mutually unintelligible between speakers of different varieties of language have, by default refers to the standard dialect of the country known as putonghua literally means "common language" in the people's Republic. Putonghua is a constructed language-based standard, a variety of Chinese North, spoken in the capital city, Beijing. On the other hand, China corresponds to a number of Chinese equivalent on the basis of the given speech community.
Traditionally, the Chinese have are divided into seven main groups dialect, Mandarin (or beifanghua of northern China), Wu, Xiang, Gan, Kejia (Hakka), Yue (Cantonese), Min. Although sharing a large number of cognates or words of common origin, Chinese dialects vary considerably more in their sound systems. All Chinese dialects have tones with contours of different tone for each syllable.
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