Mandarin

Translations

Mandarinproper noun
Used for the language name 'Mandarin', capitalized and treated as an uncountable proper noun.
Synonyms
Mandarin Chinese
Standard Mandarin
Standard Chinese
Modern Standard Chinese

Definitions

mandarinproper noun
The standard literary and official form of Chinese based on the Beijing dialect, spoken by over a billion people.
She decided to learn Mandarin to better communicate with her colleagues in China.