[
UK
/mˈændəɹˌɪn/
]
[ US /ˈmændɝən/ ]
[ US /ˈmændɝən/ ]
NOUN
- a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
- shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia
- a high public official of imperial China
- any high government official or bureaucrat
- a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China
How To Use mandarin In A Sentence
- Both Mandarin ba and Cantonese baat go back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *bʀyat but this word is without any reconstructable tone. Mommy, where do tones come from?
- The word "eight", for example, is pronounced ba with high tone in Mandarin and as baat in Cantonese with middle tone. Mommy, where do tones come from?
- I asked my daughter-in-law if there was anything special we needed to stock up on and she revealed she's been craving mandarin oranges for the last three weeks.
- Mandarin numbers shot up while junior admin staff were cut. The Sun
- Objective To evaluate Test-retest reliability of Mandarin monosyllable lists with equivalency in audibility in hearing loss group.
- Based on a Korean fairy-tale, this light and witty piece of chinoiserie tells the story of a Mandarin's daughter who is engaged to a rich Ambassador but loves an impoverished youth.
- The treasury mandarins and their minions are working overtime.
- ‘We have several officers whose jobs are entirely devoted to crunching numbers for mandarins in Whitehall,’ he growls.
- 'Swingle' citrumelo, 'Cleopatra' mandarin and Poncirus trifoliata (trifoliate orange). 12: Seeds and germplasm
- The report deluged him with criticism, albeit worded in the silky prose of a veteran mandarin.