Definitions
Etymologies
- See mandarin. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Improve my mandarin to be able to blog in Mandarin”
“Listening to a church service in Mandarin is really interesting.”
“And the Mandarin is a shoe in with the "Ten Rings" hint.”
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“The English word "Mandarin" derives from the Sanskrit "Mantrin" meaning "minister" and originally referred to officials of the Chinese empire.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“The pressurizing of ethnic groups to speak Mandarin is part of a wider policy that Beijing has been pursuing for several decades, though its efforts have intensified in recent years.”
The Huffington Post: Rebecca Novick: Tibetan Students Reveal China's Identity Crisis
“In spite of government mandated increases, basic wages in Mandarin and non-Mandarin speaking regions of China remain low, and protests and strikes among Liu's followers are escalating from peaceful to violent.”
The Huffington Post: Eric Ehrmann: China Roiled by Washington's October Surprise
“Mandarin is a language that has symbols that are very different than our written language," said Olga Livanis, the principal of NEST+m, a K-12 gifted-and-talented school on the Lower East Side.”
The Wall Street Journal: Chinese on Menu for Elementary Kids
“The rise in Mandarin comes amid increased federal funding for programs that teach it and from school administrators 'recognition of China's growing influence in the global economy.”
The Wall Street Journal: Chinese on Menu for Elementary Kids
“But a recent "China night" filled a school auditorium for students singing in Mandarin, he said.”
The Wall Street Journal: Chinese on Menu for Elementary Kids
“Threatening phone calls – in Mandarin p2pnet news view | Freedom: - Online marketing calls have taken on an ominous new meaning for some Chinese-American business owners and professionals.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘Mandarin’.
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INTERP - titles
Political and religious titles from the UK, US, EU and some other countries. The list is far from exclusive.
Commissioner, Madame Commissioner, High Representati..., President of the ..., Right Honourable, Honourable, Reverend, Admiral of the Fleet, Aesymnetes, Agonothetes, Agoranomos, Air Marshal and 350 more...
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INTERP - languages
This is not a scientific list based on unified criteria, the sole aim was to collect as many language names as possible.
The list contains the names of the following artificial langua...Abkhazian, Achinese, Acoli, Adangme, Adyghe, Afar, Afrikaans, Ainu, Akan, Albanian, Amharic, Angika and 8674 more...
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