how to pronounce mandarin

/ˈmændɚən/

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mandarin is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of mandarin in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… prepared today candles Mandarin Barry …”

meanings of mandarin

noun:

A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.
A small, sweet citrus fruit.
An orange colour.
A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.
A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.
Standard Mandarin, an official language of China and Taiwan, and one of four official languages in Singapore; Putonghua, Guoyu or Huayu.
Ellipsis of mandarin orange:.
A branch of the Chinese languages, consisting of many dialects; Guanhua or Beifanghua.
Ellipsis of mandarin duck.
Tree of species Citrus reticulata.
A senior civil servant.

adjective:

Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist.

mandarin frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word mandarin occurs in english on average 3.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics mandarin can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that mandarin can be often used in the following areas:

1) education, science, and technology;