Mandarin

Mandarin or The Mandarin may refer to:

Language

 * Mandarin Chinese, branch of Chinese originally spoken in northern parts of the country
 * Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China
 * Taiwanese Mandarin, Standard Chinese as spoken in Taiwan
 * Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca), the spoken standard of the Ming and Qing dynasties of China

Biological species

 * Mandarin orange (Citrus reticulata), a sweet, orange-like citrus fruit
 * Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata), a perching duck species found in East Asia
 * Mandarin dogfish, two species of small shark in the genus Cirrhigaleus off East Asian coast
 * Mandarinfish (disambiguation), various fishes
 * Mandarin vole (Lasiopodomys mandarinus), a species of vole found in China and the Korean Peninsula
 * Spotted mandarin (disambiguation), various species

Arts, entertainment, and media

 * The Miraculous Mandarin, a one-act pantomime ballet composed by Béla Bartók
 * Mandarin (character), a supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe
 * Wenwu, a version of the Mandarin in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
 * Trevor Slattery, a version of the Mandarin in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
 * Aldrich Killian (Marvel Cinematic Universe), a version of the Mandarin in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
 * Mandarin (SRMTHFG), a character in the animated TV series Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!
 * Mandarins Drum and Bugle Corps, a drum and bugle corps from Sacramento, California, United States
 * The Mandarin (website), an Australian online magazine
 * MTV Mandarin, a 24-hour music channel owned by MTV Networks Asia Pacific

Novels

 * The Mandarin (novel), an 1880 novel by the Portuguese writer José Maria de Eça de Queirós
 * The Mandarins, 1954 novel by Simone de Beauvoir
 * Mandarin (Elegant novel), a 1983 novel by Robert Elegant
 * Mandarin (Havan novel), a 2008 novel by John Havan

Clothing

 * Mandarin gown or cheongsam, a Chinese style of dress
 * Mandarin collar, a short shirt or jacket collar that is not folded from Qing era China
 * Mandarin square, a badge worn by officials in Imperial China

Companies

 * Mandarin Airlines, a subsidiary of China Airlines
 * The Mandarin, former name of Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong, a Hong Kong hotel
 * Mandarin Films, a film production company of Hong Kong
 * Mandarin Restaurant, an all-you-can-eat Chinese-Canadian buffet chain in Ontario, Canada
 * Mandarin Software, a British software developer / publisher

Other uses

 * Mandarin (bureaucrat), a bureaucrat of Imperial China (the original meaning of the word)
 * by extension, any senior government bureaucrat
 * Mandarin cuisine, another name for Beijing cuisine
 * Mandarin (Jacksonville), a 19th-century community, since absorbed into the city limits of Jacksonville, United States
 * Mandarin High School, a high school in the southern part of Jacksonville, Florida, United States
 * Mandarin porcelain, a wide range of porcelain that was made and decorated in China exclusively for export to Europe and later to North America
 * Mandarin paradox, an ethical parable