After the capital was moved to Nanjing, National Languages Committee reaffirmed the Beijing dialect as the standard in 1932.
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This story is a possible etymological origin of " zhongdian " to refer to the hour in the Beijing dialect.
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Moreover, Beijing dialect has a few phonetic reductions that are usually considered too " colloquial " for use in Standard Chinese.
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Since then, the Beijing dialect has become the main standard for pronunciation, due to its prestigious status during the preceding Qing Dynasty.
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An example of standard versus Beijing dialect would be the standard " men " ( door ) and Beijing " menr ".
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By the middle of the 19th century, the Beijing dialect had become dominant and was essential for any business with the imperial court.
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Its pronunciation is based on the Beijing dialect of the Mandarin Chinese dialect group, which was traditionally the formal version the Chinese language.
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This dictionary was similar to the previous published one except that it normalized the pronunciations for all characters into the pronunciation of the Beijing dialect.
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All of the non-erhua r-colored syllables have no initial consonant, and are traditionally pronounced in Beijing dialect and in conservative / old Standard Mandarin varieties.
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In the Beijing dialect that underlies Standard Mandarin, syllables beginning with originally unvoiced consonants are redistributed across the four tones in a completely random pattern.
