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• Mandarin, Burmese, and Tibetan all belong to the Sino-Tibetan language family.From the entry Sino-Tibetan
• Mandarin, Korean, and almost all of the Slavic languages are articleless.From the entry articleless
• Mandarin ducks feed mainly on insects, snails, fish, plants and seeds.2019, Kate Baker, Wild In The City, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 94. From the entry mandarin duck
• The choice of treats is between a sweet mandarin orange and maybe a lumpy rennet apple.2014, Jeannie Marshall, The Lost Art of Feeding Kids: What Italy Taught Me about Why Children Need Real Food, Beacon Press, →ISBN, page ?. From the entry rennet
• One is a hybrid pommelo while the other is a hybrid between pommelo and mandarin.2009, Handbook On Citrus Fruits Cultivation And Oil Extraction, NIIR Project Consultancy Services, page 143. From the entry pommelo
• It is too proud, too austere, too true, and too tonically cruel to appeal to mandarins.1917, Arnold Bennett, Books and Persons. From the entry tonically
• I normally make this with lemon, but it is also good with fragrant mandarins, which work well with aniseedy ouzo.2017, Catherine Phipps, “[Main courses] Whole Baked Fish with Lemon and Ouzo”, in Citrus: Recipes That Celebrate the Sour and the Sweet…. From the entry aniseedy
• Mandarin and Khmer and possibly other Southeast Asian languages may be characterized as resisting obligatorification of their meaningful morphology.2013, Jeffrey P. Williams, The Aesthetics of Grammar: Sound and Meaning in the Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia, →ISBN, page 79. From the entry obligatorification
• Shun set a small bowl of mitsumame, a cold gelatin dessert with syrup and mandarin oranges, in front of her.2001, yumeko, Sphere, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry mitsumame
• Mandarin is the official language, but many people speak Taiwanese (a variant of a southern Chinese dialect) and Japanese.1975, Lawrence A. Clancy, Sunset Travel Guide to the Orient: Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, China, Menlo Park, California…. From the entry Taiwanese
• Mandarin ducks usually pair for life.2019, Kate Baker, Wild In The City, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 94. From the entry mandarin duck
• On Thursday morning, the castaways were taken to Makung, the capital of Penghu, and placed under the care of the archipelago’s mandarin.2019 September 6, Stuart Heaver, “When maritime disaster all but wiped out Hong Kong’s cricket team – the sinking of the SS Bokhara in…. From the entry Makung
• There are always seasonal treats to be gathered from our land: mangoes, oranges, guavas, mandarins, nuts, and the palm fruits tucuma and acai.2010 December 12, Peter Menzel, “Life on a Plate”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2025. From the entry tucuma
• It was he who maneuvered a captain of industry, steelmaker Francis Mer, rather than a government mandarin into the finance minister's job.2002 June 3, James Graff, “The Power Behind the Throne”, in Time. From the entry captain of industry
• The most famous exile was Hai Rui, a Ming dynasty mandarin who hailed, like Charlie Soong, from Qiongshan county, east of Haikou.1986 January 19, John F. Burns, “SURF AND SAND IN CHINA”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Mar 2009…. From the entry Qiongshan
• The most interesting (and clearest) was one of a decapitation carried out in the presence of a mandarin and an appreciative crowd of villagers.1929, Time, page 6. From the entry decapitee
• After an AAP of 20–98 days, each adult individual was transferred to a healthy yuzu, tankan mandarin, unzoki, or orange jessamine seedling for an IAP of 4–23 days.2015 September 25, “Changes in Variable Number of Tandem Repeats in ‘ Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’ through Insect Transmission”, in…. From the entry unzoki
• While the mandarins in this recipe are amazingly healthy little packages of antioxidants and polymethoxylated flavonesxxvii, the refined sugar content makes these cupcakes a sometimes food.2012, Hannah Sforcina, Adam Morris, Love Thy Food: An Intimate Traverse into Mindful Eating, BookBaby, →ISBN. From the entry sometimes food
• Now, those Treasury mandarins unfamiliar with the railway might assume on the back of an envelope that if only 80% of trains are running, then that will cost 20% less.[2021 March 24, Christian Wolmar, “Railways Must Sell Themselves and Offer a Better Product”, in Rail, number 927, Peterborough…. From the entry back-of-the-envelope
• However, since the mandarins have articulated whaling as an issue involving preservation of cultural diversity and a nationalistic rebuff to US ecoimperialism, the prospects for reconciliation and compromise are remote.2004, Jeff Kingston, Japan's Quiet Transformation. From the entry ecoimperialism
• Of course, what was available to those literates was shaped by a complex of academics, journalizing mandarins, puffing publishers, and alternately propagandistic (read this) and prudifying (don't read that) politics.2003, Bridges, volume 10, numbers 1-4, page 113. From the entry prudify

Meaning of mandarin

1. noun A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.
2. noun A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.
3. noun A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.

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How do you use mandarin in a sentence?

Mandarin is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “Mandarin, Burmese, and Tibetan all belong to the Sino-Tibetan language family.”

What is a short sentence with mandarin?

“Mandarin ducks usually pair for life.”

What does mandarin mean?

Mandarin means a high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.