Mandarin

Etymology
. An extension of to the language used by the imperial court and sometimes by imperial officials elsewhere. As such, it was adopted as a synonym for Modern Standard Chinese in the 20th century. The term became ambiguous, however, as its use was extended to the various Northern dialects of Chinese.

Noun

 * 1) Standard Mandarin, an official language of China and Taiwan, and one of four official languages in Singapore; Putonghua, Guoyu or Huayu.
 * 2) A branch of the Chinese languages, consisting of many dialects; Guanhua or Beifanghua.
 * 1) A branch of the Chinese languages, consisting of many dialects; Guanhua or Beifanghua.
 * 1) A branch of the Chinese languages, consisting of many dialects; Guanhua or Beifanghua.
 * 1) A branch of the Chinese languages, consisting of many dialects; Guanhua or Beifanghua.
 * 1) A branch of the Chinese languages, consisting of many dialects; Guanhua or Beifanghua.

Usage notes

 * Standard Mandarin (language of the media and education) and Mandarin Chinese (the group of Northern Chinese dialects together with Standard Mandarin) are not always interchangeable and are referred to differently in Chinese (as an extreme example, Dungan is completely unintelligible to speakers of Standard Mandarin, yet both are varieties of Mandarin Chinese). Both are a part of the broader group of languages (see Chinese: Zhongwen, Hanyu), dialects, or topolects.

Synonyms

 * Beifanghua, Guanhua, Guoyu, Huayu, Mandarin Chinese, Putonghua, Standard Chinese, Standard Mandarin, Standard Spoken Chinese

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: اَللُّغَة اَلصِّينِيَّة اَلشَّمَالِيَّة (Northern Chinese language), مَنْدَرِينِيَّة
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: মান্য চীনা ভাষা
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 國語, 普通話, 華語
 * Hakka: 國語, 普通話, 華語
 * Hokkien: 普通話, ,
 * Mandarin:,   ,
 * Corsican: mandarinu
 * Czech: mandarínština
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, Mandarijnenchinees
 * Esperanto: Mandarena
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew: מַנְדָּרִינִית
 * Hindi: मंदारिन भाषा
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: Putonghua,
 * Irish: Mandairínis
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , , , ,
 * Khmer: កុកងឺ
 * Korean: ^보통화(普通話), ^중국보통어, ^북경어,
 * Latin: lingua Sinensis Mandarinica
 * Lü:
 * Macedonian: мандари́нски
 * Malay: bahasa Mandarin Baku, bahasa Mandarin, bahasa Cina
 * Navajo: Mééndawin
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: mandarin
 * Persian: ماندارین
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , литерату́рный кита́йский
 * Scottish Gaelic: Mandairinis
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: мандарински
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: mandarinu
 * Slovak: mandarínčina
 * Slovene: mandarinščina
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: Kimandarini
 * Swedish:, mandarinkinesiska
 * Tagalog: Mandarin
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Uyghur: خەنزۇچە
 * Vietnamese: tiếng phổ thông Trung Quốc, tiếng phổ thông, tiếng Quan thoại chuẩn
 * Zhuang: Vahbujdungh


 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 官話, 北方話, 撈話
 * Hakka: 官話, 北方話
 * Hokkien:, 北方話
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Galician:
 * Korean: 북방어(北方語), 관화(官話)
 * Russian:, гуаньхуа́
 * Vietnamese: tiếng Quan thoại, Bắc phương thoại, tiếng Bắc Kinh

Noun

 * 1) mandarin (Chinese Imperial official)

Proper noun

 * 1) Mandarin, standard Chinese

Etymology
, from, from , from.

Proper noun

 * 1) language from northern China, especially in Beijing
 * 1) language from northern China, especially in Beijing