Mandarin vs. Chinese
Mandarinnoun
(historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.
Mandarinnoun
A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.
Mandarinnoun
A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.
Mandarinnoun
A mandarin duck.
Mandarinnoun
A senior civil servant.
Mandarinnoun
A mandarin orange; a small, sweet citrus fruit.
Mandarinnoun
A mandarin orange tree, Citrus reticulata.
Mandarinnoun
An orange colour.
Mandarinadjective
Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist.
Mandarinnoun
A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam.
Mandarinnoun
A powerful government official or bureaucrat, especially one who is pedantic and has a strong sense of his own importance and privelege.
Mandarinnoun
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.
Mandarinnoun
The form of the Chinese language spoken by members of the Chinese Imperial Court an officials of the empire.
Mandarinnoun
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.
Mandarinnoun
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.
Mandarinnoun
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
Mandarinnoun
a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
Mandarinnoun
any high government official or bureaucrat
Mandarinnoun
a high public official of imperial China
Mandarinnoun
a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose-skinned citrus of China
Mandarinnoun
the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China
Chineseadjective
Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.
Chinese
A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.
Chinese
The language of China, which is monosyllabic.
Chinesenoun
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
Chinesenoun
a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
Chineseadjective
of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures;
Chineseadjective
of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language;
