普通話水平測試 pǔ tōng huà shuǐ píng cè shì

DEFINITIONS

  1. Putonghua Proficiency Test, an official test of spoken fluency in Standard Chinese for native speakers of Chinese languages, developed in the PRC in 1994

CHARACTERS

普 pǔ universal, general, widespread
通 tōng pass through, common, communicate
話 huà speech, talk, language; dialect
水 shuǐ water, liquid, lotion, juice
平 píng flat, level, even; peaceful
測 cè measure, estimate, conjecture
試 shì test, try, experiment