Read the dictionary definition of mandarin. All definitions for this word.
1. the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China
2. a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China
3. a high public official of imperial China
4. any high government official or bureaucrat
5. a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
6. shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia
