Mandarin vs. Chinese — What's the Difference?

Any of a group of related dialects of Chinese spoken principally in the north and west of China.

Of or relating to China or its peoples, languages, or cultures.

The official national standard spoken language of China, based on the Mandarin dialect spoken in and around Beijing. Also called Guoyu, Putonghua.

A native or inhabitant of China.

A member of any of the nine ranks of high public officials in the Chinese Empire.

A person of Chinese ancestry.

A high government official or bureaucrat.

See Han1.

A member of an elite group, especially a person having influence or high status in intellectual or cultural circles.

The sole member of the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, consisting of numerous languages and dialects such as Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese, and Fujian.

A mandarin orange.

Any of the Sinitic varieties of speech spoken by the Chinese people.

Of, relating to, or resembling a mandarin.

The official national language of China; Mandarin.

Marked by elaborate and refined language or literary style.

Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.

(historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.

A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.

A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.

The language of China, which is monosyllabic.

A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.

Any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system

(ornithology) mandarin duck

A native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China

A senior civil servant.

Of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures;

Ellipsis of mandarin orange:

Of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language;

A small, sweet citrus fruit.

A tree of the species Citrus reticulata.

(color) An orange colour.

Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist.

A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam.

A powerful government official or bureaucrat, especially one who is pedantic and has a strong sense of his own importance and privelege.

A member of an influential, powerful or elite group, espcially within artistic or intellectual circles; - used especially of elder members who are traditionalist or conservative about their specialties.

The form of the Chinese language spoken by members of the Chinese Imperial Court an officials of the empire.

Any of several closely related dialects of the Chinese language spoken by a mojority of the population of China, the standard variety of which is spoken in the region around Beijing.

A small flattish reddish-orange loose-skinned orange, with an easily separable rind. It is thought to be of Chinese origin, and is counted a distinct species (Citrus reticulata formerly Citrus nobilis); called also mandarin orange and 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