mandarin

n. high ranking public official in the Chinese Empire; important government official; member of an influential or elite group or class; mandarin orange, tangerine

n. official spoken language of China; Chinese dialect spoken in and around Beijing

Mandarin may refer to any of the following:Mandarin (bureaucrat), a bureaucrat of Imperial China, Vietnam and Korea, and by analogy, any government bureaucratIn relation to China, the Chinese language or Chinese culture:Mandarin (linguistics), a group of dialects of spoken Chinese, or more specifically:Standard Mandarin, the official spoken language of the People's Republic of China, Republic of China (Taiwan) and Singapore, and widely used by overseas ChineseMandarin dress, a style of clothing derived from Manchurian garbMandarin collar, a short shirt or jacket collar that is not folded
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Noun
1. the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China
(synonym) Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect, Beijing dialect
(hypernym) Chinese

Noun
1. shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia
(synonym) mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree, Citrus reticulata
(hypernym) citrus, citrus tree
(hyponym) tangerine, tangerine tree
(member-holonym) genus Citrus
(part-meronym) mandarin orange
2. a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
(hypernym) elitist
3. any high government official or bureaucrat
(hypernym) official, functionary
4. a high public official of imperial China
(hypernym) Chinese
5. a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose-skinned citrus of China
(synonym) mandarin orange
(hypernym) citrus, citrus fruit, citrous fruit
(hyponym) clementine
(part-holonym) mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree, Citrus reticulata

n. mandarin, Chinese official (History)

n. mandarin, high ranking public official in the Chinese Empire; important government official; member of an influential or elite group or class