MANDARIN
- An official in any of the nine top grades of the former imperial Chinese civil service
- (esp. of clothing) Characteristic or supposedly characteristic of such officials
- An ornament consisting of a nodding figure in traditional Chinese dress, typically made of porcelain
- The standard literary and official form of Chinese based on the Beijing dialect, spoken by over 730 million people
- Porcelain decorated with Chinese figures dressed as mandarins
- A powerful official or senior bureaucrat, esp. one perceived as reactionary and secretive
- of, relating to, or typical of a public official in the Chinese Empire of any of nine superior grades