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Chinese song vs Mandarin song

Both 'Chinese song' and 'Mandarin song' are correct, but they have slightly different meanings. 'Chinese song' refers to any song from China, including songs in various Chinese languages. 'Mandarin song' specifically refers to songs in the Mandarin language, which is the most widely spoken language in China.

Last updated: March 29, 2024 • 1369 views

Chinese song

This phrase is correct and commonly used to refer to songs from China or in Chinese languages.

Use 'Chinese song' when referring to songs from China or songs in any Chinese language.

Examples:

  • I love listening to Chinese songs.
  • She performed a beautiful Chinese song at the concert.
  • A lot of Chinese songs have deep meanings.
  • Who sings Chinese songs for me then?
  • I like Chinese songs so I was just singing, but I'm not Chinese. (In Japanese)
  • Miss Teresa Tang, the famous Chinese pop song queen, died of asthma today at her hotel room in Pattaya, Thailand.
  • Italian folk songs and Chinese wine don't mix.
  • And when maw maw decided to play "the Chinese torture song..."
  • There's many good songs in Chinese opera but can't sing here
  • I see it when I stand on a stage in a bluegrass festival in east Virginia and I look out at the sea of lawn chairs and I bust out into a song in Chinese.
  • Chinese songs, English songs...
  • We're making a run for the Chinese border with Mrs. Song and several of her relatives.
  • Her songs won the hearts of Chinese people all over the world.
  • People said, wherever there are Chinese people, you'll hear Teresa's songs.
  • We get Mrs. Song and her family into a hospitality van and we make a run for the Chinese border.
  • But let us see if we can end the great hypocrisy that prevails in international politics, because the same people who go to see Mr Putin, or who sing songs to the Chinese after they have invaded Tibet, cannot throw up their hands in horror.
  • And the first song I wrote was in English, and the second one was in Chinese.
  • And since I can't write a genre-defining country song with you people screaming about a horde of Chinese daylight vampires, who are probably scuttling up the drain pipes even as we speak, go out there and kill them!

Alternatives:

  • song in Mandarin
  • Cantonese song
  • Taiwanese song
  • Chinese music
  • Traditional Chinese song

Mandarin song

This phrase is correct and specifically refers to songs in the Mandarin language, which is the official language of China.

Use 'Mandarin song' when referring to songs specifically in the Mandarin language.

Examples:

  • She sang a beautiful Mandarin song at the competition.
  • Do you know any good Mandarin songs?
  • There's a billion people speaking Mandarin.
  • The meeting place is Club Mandarin in Yokohama.
  • Level two Mandarin at Cambridge night school.
  • She was supposedly killed in a car accident While studying Mandarin At the jing zi institute in hong kong.
  • That would be Chinese - Mandarin.
  • [speaking Mandarin] I don't speak Mandarin, so I assume you said I look beautiful.
  • Ruan didn't speak Mandarin well and Lily taught her.
  • If you're keen to learn Mandarin speak it from now on.
  • And he got a suite at the Mandarin Oriental for Christmas Eve.
  • Mandarin say, Captain Lin ask him to help you.
  • All the way from China, Mandarin slippers.
  • My Mandarin's a little rusty.
  • Mandarin is a very complicated language.
  • Ming-han... it's a name in Mandarin.
  • The Mandarin word for "five" is woo.
  • English, Russian, Mandarin and Tamil.
  • You speak French, Spanish, Mandarin.
  • I was concerned that my Mandarin is a little thin.
  • Most of the research was in Mandarin.
  • I will now recite the exact same passage in Mandarin.

Alternatives:

  • song in Mandarin
  • Chinese song
  • Cantonese song
  • Taiwanese song
  • Chinese music

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