Mandarin
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Mandarin may mean:
- Mandarin (linguistics), a group of dialects of spoken Chinese, or more specifically, its standardized version, which is the most common form of Chinese language spoken today, Standard Mandarin
- Mandarin (bureaucrat), a bureaucrat of Imperial China, and in the United Kingdom and Canada, by analogy, any government bureaucrat
- Mandarin Airlines, a subsidiary of China Airlines
- Mandarin collar, a short shirt or jacket collar that is not folded.
- Mandarin duck, Aix galericulata
- Mandarin fish, Siniperca chuatsi
- Mandarin orange, Citrus reticulata
- Mandarin dress, Manchurian dresses
- Mandarin button, a type of button commonly used in Manchurian dresses
- Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong, a Hong Kong hotel formerly known as The Mandarin, the founding member of the Mandarin Oriental hotel group
- Mandarin (comics), a supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe known as The Mandarin, one of the major archenemies of Iron Man
- The Mandarin (operetta), an operetta by Reginald de Koven
- The Mandarins, a novel by Simone de Beauvoir
- Mandarin was a wealthy 19th century community on the St. John's River in Florida, and was the winter home of Harriet Beecher Stowe. It has since been absorbed into the city limits of Jacksonville.
- The Mandarins are a modern Division I drum and bugle corps from Sacramento, California. They compete in the Drum Corps International circuit.
- Mandarin Software, a British software developer later purchased by Europress
- Mandarin, a 1983 Robert Elegant novel published by Simon & Schuster.
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