Mandarin

Mandarin or The Mandarin may refer to:

Language

• Mandarin Chinese, branch of Chinese originally spoken in northern parts of the country
  • Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China
    • Taiwanese Mandarin, Standard Mandarin as spoken in Taiwan
    • Singaporean Mandarin, Standard Mandarin as spoken in Singapore
  • Old Mandarin or Early Mandarin was the speech of northern China during the Jurchen-ruled Jin dynasty and the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty (12th to 14th centuries).
  • Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca), the spoken standard of the Ming and Qing dynasties of China

Biological species

• Mandarin orange (Citrus reticulata), a sweet, orange lookalike
• Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata), a perching duck species found in East Asia
• Mandarin dogfish, two species of small shark in the genus Cirrhigaleus off East Asian coast
• Mandarinfish (disambiguation), various fishes
• Mandarin vole (Lasiopodomys mandarinus), a species of vole found in China and the Korean Peninsula
• Spotted mandarin (disambiguation), various species

Arts, entertainment, and media

• The Mandarin (operetta), an operetta by Reginald De Koven and Harry B. Smith
• The Miraculous Mandarin, a one-act pantomime ballet composed by Béla Bartók
• Mandarin (character), a supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe
  • Wenwu, a version of the Mandarin in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
  • Trevor Slattery, a version of the Mandarin in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
  • Aldrich Killian (Marvel Cinematic Universe), a version of the Mandarin in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
• Mandarin (SRMTHFG), a character in the animated TV series Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!
• Mandarins Drum and Bugle Corps, a drum and bugle corps from Sacramento, California, United States
• The Mandarin (website), an Australian online magazine
• MTV Mandarin, a 24-hour music channel owned by MTV Networks Asia Pacific

Novels

• The Mandarin (novel), an 1880 novel by the Portuguese writer José Maria de Eça de Queirós
• The Mandarins, 1954 novel by Simone de Beauvoir
• Mandarin (Elegant novel), a 1983 novel by Robert Elegant
• Mandarin (Havan novel), a 2008 novel by John Havan

Clothing

• Mandarin gown or cheongsam, a Chinese style of dress
• Mandarin collar, a short shirt or jacket collar that is not folded from Qing era China
• Mandarin square, a badge worn by officials in Imperial China

Companies

• Mandarin Airlines, a subsidiary of China Airlines
• The Mandarin, former name of Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong, a Hong Kong hotel
• Mandarin Films, a film production company of Hong Kong
• Mandarin Restaurant, an all-you-can-eat Chinese-Canadian buffet chain in Ontario, Canada
• Mandarin Software, a British software developer / publisher

Other uses

• Mandarin (bureaucrat), a bureaucrat of Imperial China (the original meaning of the word)
  • by extension, any senior government bureaucrat
• Mandarin cuisine, another name for Beijing cuisine
• Mandarin (Jacksonville), a 19th-century community, since absorbed into the city limits of Jacksonville, United States
  • Mandarin High School, a high school in the southern part of Jacksonville, Florida, United States
• Mandarin porcelain, a wide range of porcelain that was made and decorated in China exclusively for export to Europe and later to North America
• Mandarin paradox, an ethical parable

See also

• Mandarina, a genus of land snail
• Korean mandarin (disambiguation)
• Mandrin (disambiguation)
• Mantri, an Indian title for ministers, the etymon for Mandarin