Mandarin

Mandarin has a number of meanings:

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• mandarin, a bureaucrat of Imperial China, and in the United Kingdom and Canada, by analogy, any government bureaucrat
• Mandarin, a group of dialects of spoken Chinese, or more specifically, its standardized dialect, Standard Mandarin
• Mandarin Airlines, a subsidiary of China Airlines
• mandarin duck, Aix galericulata.
• mandarin fish, Siniperca chuatsi.
• mandarin orange, Citrus reticulata.
• The Mandarin, a hotel in Hong Kong, now known as the Mandarin Oriental, and the founding member of the Mandarin Oriental hotel group, a part of Jardines
• The Mandarin, a supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe, one of the major archenemies of Iron Man
• The Mandarin, an operetta by Reginald de Koven
• The Mandarins, a novel by Simone de Beauvoir.