Mandarin

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Mandarin may refer to any of the following:

• Mandarin (bureaucrat), a bureaucrat of Imperial China, Vietnam and Korea, and by analogy, any government bureaucrat

In relation to China, the Chinese language or Chinese culture:

• Mandarin (linguistics), a group of dialects of spoken Chinese, or more specifically:
  • Standard Mandarin, the official spoken language of the People's Republic of China, Republic of China (Taiwan) and Singapore, and widely used by overseas Chinese
• Mandarin dress, a style of clothing derived from Manchurian garb
  • Mandarin collar, a short shirt or jacket collar that is not folded

In biology:

• Mandarin duck, Aix galericulata
• Mandarin fish, Siniperca chuatsi
• Mandarin orange, Citrus reticulata

As a company name:

• Mandarin Airlines, a subsidiary of China Airlines
• Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong, a Hong Kong hotel formerly known as The Mandarin, the founding member of the Mandarin Oriental hotel group
• Mandarin Publishing, a publishing unit of Random House
• Mandarin Software, a British software developer later purchased by Europress

Other uses:

• Mandarin, Jacksonville, Florida, United States, a wealthy 19th century community, since absorbed into the city limits of Jacksonville
• The Mandarins Drum and Bugle Corps, a drum and bugle corps from Sacramento, California
• Mandarin (novel), a 1983 Robert Elegant novel
• Mandarin (comics), a supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe, one of the major archenemies of Iron Man
• Mandarin (SRMTHFG), a character in the animated TV series Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go!
• Mandarin Mix-Up, a 1924 film starring Stan Laurel
• Mandarin high school, a high school in the southern part of Jacksonville Florida.