Mandarin

Mandarin may refer to:

Mandarin (bureaucrat), a bureaucrat of Imperial China (the original meaning of the word), and by analogy, any senior government bureaucrat

Language

Mandarin Chinese, branch of Chinese spoken in northern and southwestern China
- Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China
- Taiwanese Mandarin, the official language in Taiwan, mostly mutually intelligible with Standard Chinese
Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca), the spoken standard of the Ming and Qing dynasties of China

Mandarin orange (Citrus reticulata), a sweet, orange-like citrus fruit
Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata), a perching duck species found in East Asia
Mandarin dogfish, two species of small shark in the genus Cirrhigaleus
Mandarinfish (disambiguation), various fishes
Mandarin vole (Lasiopodomys mandarinus), a species of vole found in China and the Korean Peninsula
Spotted mandarin (disambiguation), various species

Mandarin (character), a supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe
Mandarin (Elegant novel), a 1983 novel by Robert Elegant
The Mandarin (novel), an 1880 novel by the Portuguese writer José Maria de Eça de Queirós
Mandarin (Havan novel), a 2008 novel by John Havan
Mandarin (SRMTHFG), a character in the animated TV series Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!
The Mandarin (website), an Australian online magazine
The Mandarins, 1954 novel by Simone de Beauvoir

Mandarin cuisine, another name for Beijing cuisine
Mandarin (Jacksonville), a 19th-century community, since absorbed into the city limits of Jacksonville, United States
- Mandarin High School, a high school in the southern part of Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Mandarins Drum and Bugle Corps, a drum and bugle corps from Sacramento, California, United States
Mandarin porcelain, a wide range of porcelain that was made and decorated in China exclusively for export to Europe and later to North America