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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

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