Mandarin is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MANDARIN in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a member of one of nine ranks of public officials in the Chinese Empire
• the standard literary and official form of Chinese, spoken by over 730 million people.
• an official in any of the nine top grades of the former imperial Chinese civil service.
• (of clothing) characteristic of a former Chinese mandarin
• a porcelain ornament consisting of a nodding figure in traditional Chinese costume.
• porcelain decorated with Chinese figures dressed as mandarins.
• a powerful official or senior bureaucrat, especially one perceived as reactionary and secretive
• a small flattish citrus fruit with a loose yellow-orange skin.
• the citrus tree that yields the mandarin.
• high-ranking government official
• A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam.
• A small orange, with easily separable rind. It is thought to be of Chinese origin, and is counted a distinct species (Citrus nobilis)mandarin orange; tangerine --.
• 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 member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
• any high government official or bureaucrat
• a high public official of imperial China
• a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China
• the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a citrus fruit

Words related to MANDARIN

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Words that contain MANDARIN

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How to use MANDARIN in a sentence

• During my excursions up and down the Pearl stream, I had frequent opportunities of hearing artistic performances of this description on board the mandarin and flower-boats.
• It was a kind of mass for the dead, which a mandarin had ordered for his deceased wife.
• Mandarin in Manhattan, further translations from the Chinese.
• Simultaneously an attack was to be made on the city from the water side by the Mandarin fleet.
• Towards evening the Mandarin fleet withdrew a few miles and came to anchor.
• Towards evening the Mandarin fleet again withdrew as before.
• He bowed, and in the mandarin language invoked good fortune upon me.
• The mandarin was despatched, but put back once and twice to the fort.
• The wealthiest mandarin within a radius of a hundred miles of Peking was Hi-Chum-Chop, and his beautiful daughter, Peeky-Bo, had innumerable admirers.
• I present a little problem that one learned mandarin propounded to our traveller, as depicted on the last page.
• Somewhat analogous to Urdu, in that it is a literary language used by the educated classes for intercommunication throughout a polygot empire, is the Mandarin Chinese.
• I had no objection to make to this, nor had the mandarin, who possessed friends and relatives in the south.
• A figure like a Chinese mandarin, seated in a chair, condemns Cain and is drawn up into the clouds.
• There is a good plum pudding story told of Lord Macartney when he was on his embassy to China, and wished to give gratification to a distinguished mandarin.
• All the people turned respectfully aside for the procession to pass, and even if a Mandarin had happened to meet her on the way he would have had to turn aside.
• In the beginning of the sixth moon, after the early crops of rice had been cut, they ate their new rice on the day appointed by the Mandarin.
• One old Porsslanese official was standing there, a high mandarin of some sort, and he had an emerald necklace around his neck.
• Any one may become a mandarin if he learns enough to deserve it.
• Carey, Commissioner of Customs, and not only speaks mandarin Chinese but also several native dialects.
• Finally conditions became so intolerable that no one was safe, and after repeated complaints by the missionaries, a new mandarin of a somewhat better type was sent to Yuchi.
• The goods chiefly belonged to the retiring mandarin of Li-chiang, and included some five thousand dollars worth of jade and gold dust, all of which was taken.
• When leaving, the mandarin follows his visitor to the doorway of the outer court, while the latter continually bows and protests asking him not to come so far.
• The mandarin at Wei-hsi received us hospitably and proved to be one of the most courteous officials whom we met in Yuen-nan.
• Indeed, while we were in Meng-ting the district mandarin arrived.
• He begins by beating time with his feet and his head, which latter movement gives him very much the appearance of a mandarin that you sometimes see on a mantelpiece.
• As soon as the steamer reached the place indicated by the mandarin the engines were stopped.
• That any sweeping alteration will be made in our existing laws, I have given my mandarin friends no reason to expect.
• At the call he raised his head and took off his Mandarin spectacles.
• She smacked my face just now when I was posing as a mandarin.

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