粵典 (words.hk)香港詞
相對#文言文；通常指五四運動之後，用北京話做標準嘅中文文體。用字同語法比較接近口語。又叫做#語體文。（量詞：篇） (vernacular style writing, as opposed to classical Chinese; this style resembles everyday Mandarin speech.)
名詞用例
白話文比文言文易明白好多。
baak6 waa2 man4 bei2 man4 jin4 man2 ji6 ming4 baak6 hou2 do1.
The vernacular style Chinese writing is much easier to understand than classical style Chinese.