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Mandarin may refer to:
Officials
- Mandarin (bureaucrat), a bureaucrat of Imperial China (the original meaning of the word), and by analogy, any senior government bureaucrat
Language
- Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca), the spoken standard of the Ming and Qing empires
- Mandarin Chinese, a major branch of Chinese spoken in northern and southwestern China
- Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China and Taiwan
Clothing
- Mandarin gown or cheongsam, a Chinese style of dress
- Mandarin collar, a short shirt or jacket collar that is not folded
- Mandarin square, a badge worn by officials in Imperial China
Biology
- Mandarin duck, Aix galericulata
- Mandarin fish, Siniperca chuatsi
- Mandarin dogfish, two species of small shark in the genus Cirrhigaleus
- Mandarin orange (Citrus reticulata), a sweet, orange-like citrus fruit
Companies
- Mandarin Airlines, a subsidiary of China Airlines
- The Mandarin, former name of Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong, a Hong Kong hotel
- Mandarin Publishing, a publishing unit of Random House
- Mandarin Restaurant, a chain of all-you-can-eat buffets in Ontario, Canada
- Mandarin Software, a British software developer
- Mandarin Films, a film production company of Hong Kong
Other
- Mandarin (comics), a supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe
- Mandarin (Jacksonville), a 19th-century community, since absorbed into the city limits of Jacksonville, United States
- Mandarin High School, a high school in the southern part of Jacksonville Florida
- Mandarin (novel), a 1983 novel by Robert Elegant
- Mandarin (SRMTHFG), a character in the animated TV series Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!
- The Mandarins, 1954 novel by Simone de Beauvoir
- Mandarins Drum and Bugle Corps, a drum and bugle corps from Sacramento, California
- Mandarin porcelain, a wide range of porcelain that was made and decorated in China exclusively for export to Europe and later to North America
- Mandarin cuisine, another name for Beijing cuisine
See also
- Mandarina, a genus of land snail
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