Guoyu
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Guoyu may mean or refer to:
- Language
- Guoyu (traditional Chinese: 國語; simplified Chinese: 国语; pinyin: Guóyǔ; Wade-Giles: Kuo-yü), literally "nation/country-language" can refer to Standard Mandarin, the standardized spoken Chinese language. The term remains in common use in Taiwan and Hong Kong, see Taiwanese Mandarin.
- The language the Emperor of China spoke.
- It was the Xianbei language during the Northern Wei Dynasty, Khitan during the Liao Dynasty, Jurchen during the Jin Dynasty, Mongolian during the Yuan Dynasty and Manchu during the Qing Dynasty.
- Cultural
- Guoyu (book), a classical history book of ancient China.
- Guoyue, national music in the People's Republic of China