mandarin

/หˆmรฆn.dษ™.ษนษชn/

IPA: /M AE1 N D ER0 AH0 N/

noun
  1. 1

    A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire

  2. 2

    A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat

  3. 3

    A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles

  4. 4

    A senior civil servant

adjective
  1. 1

    Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist

noun
  1. 1

    A perching duck that has a red bill, large white crescent above the eye and reddish face, Aix galericulata.

noun
  1. 1

    (color) an orange colour

noun
  1. 1

    A small citrus tree (Citrus reticulata) with fruit resembling the orange.

  2. 2

    The fruit of this tree, smaller than an orange and oblate. In daily usage, it may include other similar citrus fruits like Citrus unshiu (satsuma or mikan) Citrus tangerina (tangerine).

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mandarin, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mandarin%20duck