Mandarin
Mandarin has a number of meanings:
- The language Mandarin, or a specific standardized dialect, such as Putonghua or Guoyu.
- The fruit mandarin orange, Citrus reticulata.
- The duck, Mandarin duck, Aix galericulata.
- The fish, Mandarin fish, Siniperca chuatsi.
- An Imperial Chinese bureaucrat, and in the UK, by analogy, any government bureaucrat. The wardrobe of a mandarin during the Qing Dynasty involved a Manchu official headware and a mandarin square. A mandarin lived in a yamen.
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.
