Mandarin
Imperial Chinese official
Mandarin is the most widely spoken form of Chinese, the official language of China and Taiwan, and one of four official languages of Singapore.
It serves as the standard spoken Chinese, based on the Beijing dialect: She's studying Mandarin at university.
His Mandarin has improved since moving to Beijing. (Lowercase mandarin is a citrus fruit or a bureaucrat.)
Of that Asian nation
- tonalRelating to pitch
- tonesDistinct sound qualities
- pinyinChinese-to-alphabet conversion system
- HanziChinese logographic writing system
characters · Beijing · dialect · Sino-Tibetan · fluency · radicals · strokes · ideographic
Chinese
Of that Asian nation
Hanzi · characters · Beijing · dialect · Sino-Tibetan · fluency · radicals · strokes · ideographic · calligraphy
- Chinese cultureConfucianism, Chinese calligraphy, Beijing, Chinese New Year, Daoism
- Asian languagesThai, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Hindi, Japanese
- Languages/DialectsCantonese, Levantine, Bavarian, Swiss German, Scots
- Sino-TibetanCantonese, Tibetan, Burmese, Karen, Balti
- Tonal LanguagesCantonese, Vietnamese, Thai, Burmese, Yoruba
- Chinese dialectsCantonese, Hokkien, Shanghainese, Taiwanese, Sichuanese
Mandarincommoner
Non-noble person
peasant · plebeian · ordinary citizen · the masses · outsider
Mandaringrapefruit
Tangy citrus, often halved
pomelo · lemon · lime · citron · bitter orange
- mandarin orangesSmall, sweet citrus fruit
- Mandarin ChineseOfficial language of China
- mandarin collarsShort standing neckbands
- mandarin ducksOrnamental Asian waterfowl species
- mandarin treeCitrus-bearing evergreen
- mandarin orange saladDish featuring small orange segments