mandarin

     

Manarin may refer to any of the following:

Trivia about mandarin

  • The name of this dialect comes from a Hindi word, mantri, meaning "counselor"
  • This term for the scholarly elite of the Sung dynasty's civil service came to mean any high official
  • A small Oriental orange or a division of Chinese cuisine
  • Putonghua, the chief representative of this dialect, is based on the speech of Beijing
  • This dialect forms the basis of modern standard Chinese, usually called Putonghua, "common language"
  • The dress called cheongsam, which blends traditional Chinese & Western styles, is also called this, like a Chinese dialect
  • With 900 million speakers, this dialect of Chinese is the world's most widely used
  • Official language of both the People's Republic & Taiwan, it's the most common Chinese dialect
  • Orange ya glad you know this title for a Chinese official goes back to the Sanskrit for "counselor"
  • This Chinese tongue is spoken by more than a billion people
  • This dialect is also called Northern Chinese
  • Today, all schools teach this dialect which the Chinese call Putonghua, or "common language"
  • This form of Chinese beats Wu & Yue (or Cantonese) in total number of speakers
  • This dialect of Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world

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