Mandarin
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- noun
- /ˈmæn.də.rɪn/
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mandarín
- In China, many people communicate in Mandarin, the country's official language.
So it might might be my my advice to him would be go and learn Mandarin.
- So it might might be my my advice to him would be go and learn Mandarin.
- Snake head and and we call them coyotes, coyotes, but in Mandarin, they call them snake heads.
- Never in my life would I've ever thought I'd see John Cena speaking pretty decent Mandarin.
- So the same knowledge that informs your search in English also informs somebody's search in Mandarin or Hindi or something like that.
- We might add something like Mandarin or Arabic or French or pick whatever else you like.
- And I, I told Priscilla's mother in Mandarin and I never knew before that if she understood anything I was saying.
- So, you know, the two Asian kids in class whose parents also spoke Mandarin, like my grandma I, those were like the the people I hung out with.
- I think more people speak is it Mandarin or Cantonese than speak English.
- He's speaking fluent fucking Mandarin, like holy shit.
- He speaks Spanish in the English and Mandarin at the same time.
Examples
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You can hear that sound in Russian, in Mandarin Chinese.
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But in the next year, I will be in China, in Beijing, doing half my time will be spent doing a Mandarin program to further my studies of Mandarin.
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So I wanted my children to grow up speaking perfect Mandarin and knowing Asia.
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I just finished Mandarin class and we got ready and now we are about to head out to Soho.
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Now, very few of these managers speak Mandarin, nor do they speak the local dialect.
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I mean, the Chinese don't just speak Mandarin, They speak, oh goodness, how many major languages do they speak besides Mandarin?
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Who knows what your children will be speaking when they run their own software companies, Mandarin and Cantonese and Urdu?
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So some places it's French, some places it's Mandarin, some places it's Scottish Gaelic, and in some places it's BSL.
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Folks are now pointing out that the word bean in Mandarin is actually pronounced doja.
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So the same knowledge that informs your search in English also informs somebody's search in Mandarin or Hindi or something like that.
Synonyms
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3.7
The main form of Chinese spoken in Beijing and used as China's official language
The main form of Chinese spoken in Beijing and used as China's official language
Compounds
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3.7
The main form of Chinese spoken in Beijing and used as China's official language
The main form of Chinese spoken in Beijing and used as China's official language
A small tree from Southeast Asia that grows sweet, easy-to-peel orange fruit
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mandarin originally named China's high officials and comes from Malay menteri (from Sanskrit mantri) meaning 'counsellor' or 'minister'. Europeans later used the word for those officials and then for the language they spoke, so Mandarin now means the official Chinese language.