Mandarin
Appearance
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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
Biological species
- 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
Arts, entertainment, and media
- 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
Clothing
- Mandarin gown or cheongsam, a Chinese style of dress
- Mandarin collar, a short shirt or jacket collar that is not folded
- Mandarin square, a badge worn by officials in Imperial China
Companies
- Mandarin Airlines, a subsidiary of China Airlines
- The Mandarin, former name of Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong, a Hong Kong hotel
- Mandarin Films, a film production company of Hong Kong
- Mandarin Publishing, a publishing unit of Random House
- Mandarin Restaurant, a chain of all-you-can-eat buffets in Ontario, Canada
- Mandarin Software, a British software developer
Other uses
- 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
See also
- Korean mandarin (disambiguation)
- Mandarina, a genus of land snail
- MTV Mandarin, a 24-hour music channel owned by MTV Networks Asia Pacific
- Mandrin (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles containing Mandarin