Mandarin

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, the major branch of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China
• Standard Chinese, also called Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China and Taiwan

Clothing

• Mandarin dress, a style of clothing derived from Manchu garb
• Mandarin collar, a short shirt or jacket collar that is not folded
• Mandarin square, a large embroidered badge sewn onto the surcoat of an official 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

See also

• Mandarina, a genus of land snail