Mandarin

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Mandarin may mean:

• Mandarin (linguistics), a group of dialects of spoken Chinese, or more specifically, its standardized version, 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, Florida, a wealthy 19th century community on the St. John's River in Florida, since absorbed into the city limits of Jacksonville.
• The Mandarins Drum and Bugle Corps 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 (novel), a 1983 Robert Elegant novel published by Simon & Schuster.
• Mandarin (town)