Mandarin vs. Chinese — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Mandarin and Chinese
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Definitions
Mandarin
Any of a group of related dialects of Chinese spoken principally in the north and west of China.
Chinese
Of or relating to China or its peoples, languages, or cultures.
Mandarin
The official national standard spoken language of China, based on the Mandarin dialect spoken in and around Beijing. Also called Guoyu, Putonghua.
Chinese
A native or inhabitant of China.
Mandarin
A member of any of the nine ranks of high public officials in the Chinese Empire.
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Chinese
A person of Chinese ancestry.
Mandarin
A high government official or bureaucrat.
Chinese
See Han1.
Mandarin
A member of an elite group, especially a person having influence or high status in intellectual or cultural circles.
Chinese
The sole member of the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, consisting of numerous languages and dialects such as Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese, and Fujian.
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Mandarin
A mandarin orange.
Chinese
Any of the Sinitic varieties of speech spoken by the Chinese people.
Mandarin
Of, relating to, or resembling a mandarin.
Chinese
The official national language of China; Mandarin.
Mandarin
Marked by elaborate and refined language or literary style.
Chinese
Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.
Mandarin
(historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.
Chinese
A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.
Mandarin
A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.
Chinese
The language of China, which is monosyllabic.
Mandarin
A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.
Chinese
Any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system
Mandarin
(ornithology) mandarin duck
Chinese
A native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
Mandarin
A senior civil servant.
Chinese
Of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures;
Chinese food
Mandarin
Ellipsis of mandarin orange:
Chinese
Of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language;
The Taiwanese capital is Taipeh
Mandarin
A small, sweet citrus fruit.
Mandarin
A tree of the species Citrus reticulata.
Mandarin
(color) An orange colour.
Mandarin
Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist.
Mandarin
A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam.
Mandarin
A powerful government official or bureaucrat, especially one who is pedantic and has a strong sense of his own importance and privelege.
Mandarin
A member of an influential, powerful or elite group, espcially within artistic or intellectual circles; - used especially of elder members who are traditionalist or conservative about their specialties.
Mandarin
The form of the Chinese language spoken by members of the Chinese Imperial Court an officials of the empire.
Mandarin
Any of several closely related dialects of the Chinese language spoken by a mojority of the population of China, the standard variety of which is spoken in the region around Beijing.
Mandarin
A small flattish reddish-orange loose-skinned orange, with an easily separable rind. It is thought to be of Chinese origin, and is counted a distinct species (Citrus reticulata formerly Citrus nobilis); called also mandarin orange and tangerine.
Mandarin
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
Mandarin
A member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
Mandarin
Any high government official or bureaucrat
Mandarin
A high public official of imperial China
Mandarin
A somewhat flat reddish-orange loose-skinned citrus of China
Mandarin
The dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China