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Mandarin
ˈmand(ə)rɪn
Mandarin definitions
noun
mandarin
mandarine
mandarines
mandarins
- the standard literary and official form of Chinese, spoken by over 730 million people
- an official in any of the nine top grades of the former imperial Chinese civil service
- (of clothing) characteristic of a former Chinese mandarin
"a red-buttoned mandarin cap"
- a porcelain ornament consisting of a nodding figure in traditional Chinese costume
- porcelain decorated with Chinese figures dressed as mandarins
- a powerful official or senior bureaucrat, especially one perceived as reactionary and secretive
"a civil service mandarin"
official administrator office-holder office-bearer civil servant public servant government servant minister functionary appointee apparatchik mandarin