Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a group of related dialects of Chinese spoken principally in the north and west of China.
- noun The official national standard spoken language of China, based on the Mandarin dialect spoken in and around Beijing.
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- proper noun
Standard Mandarin , the officiallanguage ofChina andTaiwan , and one of four official languages inSingapore ;Putonghua ,Guoyu or Huayu - proper noun A branch of the Chinese languages, consisting of many dialects;
Guanhua or Beifanghua.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Improve my mandarin to be able to blog in Mandarin
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Listening to a church service in Mandarin is really interesting.
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And the Mandarin is a shoe in with the "Ten Rings" hint.
The Future of Iron Man: Alcoholic Tony Stark, War Machine, and Beyond! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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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 2011
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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.
Rebecca Novick: Tibetan Students Reveal China's Identity Crisis Rebecca Novick 2010
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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.
Eric Ehrmann: China Roiled by Washington's October Surprise Eric Ehrmann 2010
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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.
Rebecca Novick: Tibetan Students Reveal China's Identity Crisis Rebecca Novick 2010
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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.
Eric Ehrmann: China Roiled by Washington's October Surprise Eric Ehrmann 2010
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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.
Rebecca Novick: Tibetan Students Reveal China's Identity Crisis Rebecca Novick 2010
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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.
Rebecca Novick: Tibetan Students Reveal China's Identity Crisis Rebecca Novick 2010
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