Mandarin

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “When mandarins on the court pointed to obscure language in the Constitution to overturn a century of precedent and declare the income tax unconstitutional, Harlan sided with precedent[.]”

4. isim Ellipsis of mandarin duck.
5. isim A senior civil servant.
6. isim A figurine of a Chinese person with movable head that was popular in the 1950s. (Cf. bobblehead.)
7. sıfat Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist.

   “A mandarin impassivity had descended over Smiley's face. The earlier emotion was quite gone.”

8. isim A small, sweet citrus fruit.
9. isim A tree of the species Citrus reticulata.
10. isim An orange colour.
11. özel isim Standard Mandarin, an official language of China and Taiwan, and one of four official languages in Singapore; Putonghua, Guoyu or Huayu.

    “[...]and though the ſame word hath one ſignification in the Mandorines Language, and a contrary in Japan and other places, yet knowing one Speech and their Character, you may Travel not only through the Empire of China, but the adjacent Kingdoms.”

12. özel isim A branch of the Chinese languages, consisting of many dialects; Guanhua or Beifanghua.