Mandarin

mandarin mandarín English Standard + + Chinese zh Mandarin Chinese Etymology en ine-pro *men- (think) en zh - ^官話 spoken language of the mandarins. An extension of en mandarin bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire to the language used by the imperial court and sometimes by imperial officials elsewhere. As such, it was adopted as a synonym for Modern Standard Chinese in the 20th century. The term became ambiguous, however, as its use was extended to the various Northern dialects of Chinese. Pronunciation en /ˈmæn.də.ɹɪn/ RP,GenAm,CA,Aus en en-us-mandarin.ogg US en /mæn.dəˈɹɪn/ UK,Aus en en-au-mandarin.ogg Queensland en /ˈmæn.d(ə).ɹɪn/ SG en man da rin Proper noun en Q727694Standard Mandarin, an official language of mainland China and Taiwan, and one of four official languages in Singapore; Putonghua, Guoyu or Huayu. en 1669 John Nievhoff Athanasius Kircher Description of China w:John Ogilby An embassy from the East-India Company An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-126081-3026/ John Macock London 561227535 106 https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-126081-3026/page/n483/ [...]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. on en https://archive.org/details/emperorfarawaytr0000eime/page/75 2014 The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China w:David Eimer w:Bloomsbury USA 75 978-1-62040-363-1 Far fewer people understood Mandarin in Hotan than anywhere else I'd been in Xinjiang. It made getting around difficult, as not only did the taxi drivers fail to understand what I was saying, but they couldn't read an address either. Most ignored or didn't know the Chinese names given to the streets anyway. en 09 March 2022 'Lithuania mania' sweeps Taiwan as China spat sizzles https://web.archive.org/web/20220309041930/https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220309-lithuania-mania-sweeps-taiwan-as-china-spat-sizzles 09 March 2022 w:France 24 Owner David Yeh says his Little-One bar -- a homophone to Lithuania's Mandarin name "Litaowan" -- started getting more attention last year after Vilnius became the first EU government to donate vaccines. en en Q9192A branch of the Chinese languages, consisting of many dialects; Guanhua or Beifanghua. en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1978-01-08_19_2/ January 8, 1978 L. Chen What they say of Peiping rule Free China Weekly XIX 2 Taipei 3 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1978-01-08_19_2/page/n2/ "Two, three, four, five, south! Six, seven, eight, nine, north!" Strange as it may sound, this is the way the people on the Chinese mainland complain about the lack of clothes, food and other necessities.Absent from the phrases are "one" and "ten"—"i" and "shih" in Chinese Mandarin. The words for "clothes" and "food" sound alike. Also missing are "east" and "west." Their Chinese equivalents when put together as "tung-hsi," stand for "things," "objects" or "matters." Usage notes Standard Mandarin (language of the media and education) and Mandarin Chinese (the group of Northern Chinese dialects together with Standard Mandarin) are not always interchangeable and are referred to differently in Chinese (as an extreme example, Dungan is completely unintelligible to speakers of Standard Mandarin, yet both are varieties of Mandarin Chinese). Both are a part of the broader group of languages (see Chinese: Zhongwen, Hanyu), dialects or topolects. Synonyms Beifanghua, Guanhua, Guoyu, Huayu, Mandarin Chinese, Putonghua, Standard Chinese, Standard Mandarin, Standard Spoken Chinese Derived terms en Mandapop Mandarinic Mandarinize Mandopop Standard Mandarin Translations Standard Mandarin Chinese Afrikaans: af Mandaryns Arabic: ar اَللُّغَة اَلصِّينِيَّة اَلشَّمَالِيَّة f al-luḡa ṣ-ṣīniyya š-šamāliyya (Northern Chinese language), ar مَنْدَرِينِيَّة f Armenian: hy մանդարին Assamese: as মান্য চীনা ভাষা Bulgarian: bg мандари́н m Catalan: ca mandarí m Chinese: Cantonese: yue 國語 gwok3 jyu5, yue 普通話 pou2 tung1 waa6-2, yue 華語 waa4 jyu5 Hakka: hak 國語 koet-ngî, hak 普通話 phû-thûng-fa, hak 華語 fà-ngî Hokkien: nan-hbl 普通話 Phó͘-thong-ōe PRC, nan-hbl 華語 Hôa-gú, Hôa-gí, nan-hbl 國語 Kok-gú, Kok-gí Taiwan Mandarin: cmn 普通話 Pǔtōnghuà PRC, Putonghua, Taiwan cmn 國語 Guóyǔ mainly Taiwan, Guoyu, cmn 華語 Huáyǔ mainly Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia Wu: wuu 國語 7koq-gniu, wuu 普通閒話 5phu-thon 6ghe-gho Corsican: co mandarinu m Czech: cs mandarínština f Danish: da mandarin n Dutch: nl Mandarijn n, nl Mandarijnenchinees n dated Esperanto: eo Mandarena Estonian: et mandariini Finnish: fi mandariinikiina French: fr mandarin m Galician: gl mandarín m German: de Mandarin n, de Hochchinesisch n Hebrew: he מַנְדָּרִינִית f mandarínit Hindi: hi मंदारिन भाषा f Hungarian: hu mandarin Indonesian: id Putonghua, id bahasa Mandarin Irish: ga Mandairínis f Italian: it mandarino m Japanese: ja 北京語 ぺきんご, Pekin-go most common term, ja 普通話 ふつうわ, Futsūwa, ja 国語 こくご, Kokugo, ja 華語 かご, Kago, ja 北京官話 ペキンかんわ, Pekin-kanwa, ja 標準中国語 ひょうじゅんちゅうごくご, hyōjun Chūgokugo Khmer: km កុកងឺ Korean: ko ^보통화(普通話), ko ^중국보통어, ko ^북경어, ko ^중국어(中國語) Latin: la lingua Sinensis Mandarinica f Lü: khb Macedonian: mk мандари́нски m Malay: ms bahasa Mandarin Baku, ms bahasa Mandarin, ms bahasa Cina Navajo: nv Mééndawin Norwegian: no mandarin m Bokmål: nb mandarin m Nynorsk: nn mandarin m Persian: fa ماندارین mândârin Polish: pl mandaryński m Portuguese: pt mandarim m Russian: ru путунхуа́ m, ru мандари́н m, ru литерату́рный кита́йский m язы́к Scottish Gaelic: gd Mandairinis f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh мандарински m Latin: sh mandarinski m Sicilian: scn mandarinu m Slovak: sk mandarínčina f Slovene: sl mandarinščina f Spanish: es mandarín m, es chino mandarín m Swahili: sw Kimandarini Swedish: sv mandarin c, sv mandarinkinesiska Tagalog: tl Mandarin Tamil: ta மாண்டரின், ta சீனம் Thai: th ภาษาจีนกลาง Turkish: tr Çince Uyghur: ug خەنزۇچە Vietnamese: vi tiếng phổ thông Trung Quốc, vi tiếng phổ thông, vi tiếng Quan thoại chuẩn Zhuang: za Vahbujdungh a branch of the Chinese languages Chinese: Cantonese: yue 官話 gun1 waa6-2, yue 北方話 bak1 fong1 waa6-2, yue 撈話 laau1 waa6-2 derogatory Hakka: hak 官話 kôn-fa, hak 北方話 Pet-fông-fa Hokkien: nan-hbl 官話 koaⁿ-ōe, nan-hbl 北方話 Pak-hong-ōe Mandarin: cmn 官話 Guānhuà, cmn 北方話 Běifānghuà Wu: wuu 北方閒話 7poq-faon 6ghe-gho, wuu 官話 1kuoe-gho Galician: gl mandarín m Korean: ko 북방어(北方語), ko 관화(官話) Polish: pl mandaryński m Russian: ru мандари́н m, ru гуаньхуа́ m Tamil: ta மாண்டரின் Vietnamese: vi tiếng Quan thoại, vi Bắc phương thoại, vi tiếng Bắc Kinh See also cmn en Hanyu en Zhongwen Further reading 1 cmn cmn Anagrams en aadimnnr Mirandan en Chinese Languages German Pronunciation de De-Mandarin.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Noun m,s:es mandarin (Chinese Imperial official) Declension m,s:es Descendants 1 hu mandarin Proper noun n,-:s Mandarin, standard Chinese de Hochchinesisch Further reading Mandarin_Beamter Mandarin_Sprache de Languages Tagalog Etymology tl es mandarín, from tl pt mandarim, from tl ms menteri, from tl sa मन्त्रिन् minister; councillor. Pronunciation Mandarín Proper noun Mandarín + en Mandarin Standard Chinese language language from northern China, especially in Beijing Further reading tl Languages China Taiwan