mandarins
Small sweet oranges
Mandarins are the small, sweet citrus fruits with loose, easily peeled skin—clementines and tangerines are varieties.
The word also names powerful bureaucrats or officials, especially in imperial China, where mandarins administered the empire through examinations and hierarchy.
By extension, any elite insider wielding quiet influence: the mandarins of Wall Street, media mandarins.
Mandarin Chinese is the dominant dialect of Chinese, spoken by over a billion people.
Round citrus with segments
- clementinesSmall, seedless citrus fruit
- tangerinesLoose-skinned citrus fruit
- satsumasSmall, seedless citrus fruit
- segmentsSeparate parts of something
peel · zest · citrus · juicy · seedless · sweet · vitamin C · canned
Administrative government employees
- ChineseOf that Asian nation
- imperialRelating to supreme rule
- courtTrial venue or sports surface
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
robes · scholars · examinations · Ming · administrators · officials · civil service · hierarchy
Of that Asian nation
- tonesDistinct sound qualities
- BeijingChina's seat of government
- dialectRegional language variety
- speakersAudio output devices
standard · pronunciation · characters · pinyin · fluency · Cantonese · linguistics · native
Founded organization or venue
- gatekeepersThose controlling entry
- insidersThose with special access
- powerfulHaving great strength
- influentialHaving considerable effect
technocrats · executives · policymakers · decision-makers · privileged · connected · entrenched · old guard
oranges
Round citrus with segments
- clementinesSmall, seedless citrus fruit
- tangerinesLoose-skinned citrus fruit
- satsumasSmall, seedless citrus fruit
segments · peel · zest · citrus · juicy · seedless · sweet · vitamin C · canned · syrup
bureaucrats
Administrative government employees
dynasty · robes · scholars · examinations · Ming · administrators · officials · civil service · hierarchy · emperor
Chinese
Of that Asian nation
speakers · standard · pronunciation · characters · pinyin · fluency · Cantonese · linguistics · native · official
establishment
Founded organization or venue
- gatekeepersThose controlling entry
- insidersThose with special access
- powerfulHaving great strength
influential · technocrats · executives · policymakers · decision-makers · privileged · connected · entrenched · old guard · hierarchy
- HueCitadel, Imperial Palace, court music, royal ceremonies, eunuchs
- ChinaBeijing, Shanghai, Great Wall, Yellow River, Chinese calligraphy
- Chinese cultureConfucianism, Chinese calligraphy, Beijing, Chinese New Year, Daoism
- California cropsalmonds, avocados, grapes, lettuce, oranges
- citrusorange, lemon, lime, grapefruit, tangerine
- officialsofficial, officials, bailiff, bureaucrat, congressman
mandarinsgrapefruits
Large tart citrus fruits
pomelos · lemons · limes · citrons · bitter oranges
mandarinscommon people
Non-elite members of society
ordinary citizens · outsiders · commoners · plebeians · the masses
mandarinspopulists
Champions of ordinary citizens
common folk · anti-intellectuals · everyman · men of the people · salt of the earth
- 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