Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mandarin_chinese

1 sense of mandarin chinese

Sense 1
Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect, Beijing dialect -- (the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China)
       => Chinese -- (any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system)