Mandarin

== English == === Etymology === Calque from Chinese 官話／官话 (Guānhuà, “spoken language of the mandarins”). An extension of 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 === (General American, Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈmæn.də.ɹɪn/ (UK, General Australian) IPA(key): /mæn.dəˈɹɪn/ (Singapore) IPA(key): /ˈmæn.d(ə).ɹɪn/ Hyphenation: man‧da‧rin === Proper noun === Mandarin Standard Mandarin, an official language of China and Taiwan, and one of four official languages in Singapore; Putonghua, Guoyu or Huayu. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Mandarin. A branch of the Chinese languages, consisting of many dialects; Guanhua or Beifanghua. ==== 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 ==== Standard Mandarin Standarin ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== Wiktionary’s coverage of Mandarin terms Appendix:Mandarin Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Mandarin Hanyu Zhongwen === Further reading === ISO 639-3 code cmn (SIL) Ethnologue entry for Mandarin, cmn ⁠ === Anagrams === Mirandan == German == === Pronunciation === === Noun === Mandarin m (strong, genitive Mandarins or Mandarines, plural Mandarine) mandarin (Chinese Imperial official) ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Hungarian: mandarin === Proper noun === Mandarin n (proper noun, strong, genitive Mandarin or Mandarins) Mandarin, standard Chinese Synonym: Hochchinesisch === Further reading === “Mandarin”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[5] (in German) “Mandarin” in Duden online “Mandarin” in Duden online == Tagalog == === Etymology === Borrowed from Spanish mandarín, from Portuguese mandarim, from Malay menteri, from Sanskrit मन्त्रिन् (mantrin, “minister; councillor”). === Pronunciation === (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /mandaˈɾin/ [mɐn̪.d̪ɐˈɾɪn̪] Rhymes: -in Syllabification: Man‧da‧rin === Proper noun === Mandarín (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜈ᜔ᜇᜇᜒᜈ᜔) Mandarin (Standard Chinese language) language from northern China, especially in Beijing === Further reading === “Mandarin”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018