Mandarin
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Mandarin has a number of meanings:
- The language Mandarin, or a specific standardized dialect, such as Putonghua or Guoyu.
- The fruit mandarin orange, Citrus reticulata
- The duck, Mandarin Duck, Aix galericulata.
- An Imperial Chinese bureaucrat, and in the UK, by analogy, any government bureaucrat. The wardrobe of a mandrin during the Qing Dynasty involved a Manchu official headware and a mandarin square. A mandarin lived in a yamen.