Noun
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the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China
- mandarin chinese - mandarin dialect - beijing dialect -
a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China
- mandarin orange -
a high public official of imperial China
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any high government official or bureaucrat
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a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
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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
- mandarin orange - mandarin orange tree - citrus reticulata