A member of an elite intellectual or cultural group

Usage examples of mandarin.

Mandarin, and only had enough Spanish to follow soccer broadcasts when the Anglophone nets were preoccupied with baseball or hockey, but he thought he could get by long enough to land a job.

He picked up one of the cushions beside him and studied it a moment, reading the Mandarin pictograms sewn into the velvet.

English and Mandarin, the pictograms sewn into every cushion, every curtain, every bedspread in the place.

I lived on Potrero Hill, in a renovated blue Michaelian town house with a view of the bay Not the fancy view like the one from the Mandarin Suite.

The Shan dialect is quite distinct from the Chinese, but all the princes or princelets dress in Chinese fashion and learn Mandarin, and it was of course in Mandarin that the Santa Sawbwa conversed with Mr.

Then he spoke again in Mandarin, and the woman filled up a bag, weighed it, and sealed it, scribbling a price on the plastic wrapping.

She chose a shoulderless tunic with a mandarin collar and stretch slacks in gray, with a broad belt for her pouch and holster.

By this time nothing could astound him, but it was a moment before he realized that the mandarin or high priest who occupied the thronal chair at the end of the room was Elder.

The Throneless King was Confucius, and Lau Ge was now the highest-ranking of all the mandarins.

Yat Soon, the arbiter of Chinatown, had been stirred to action by the statements of Shan Kwan the Mandarin.

The ultimate weapon, gunpowder, sold to a mandarin warlord in Choukoutien village.

The major dialects are Cantonese in the south, Minnanhua in Fujian and Taiwan, and Mandarin, or Putonghua, in Beijing and the north.

De Guignes smiled and spoke with great friendliness, and as soon as the Frenchman had excused himself and departed in company with a pair of Chinese mandarins, Hammond instantly turned to Laurence and demanded, in a perfectly shameless manner, to have the whole of their conversation recounted.

English in addition to Japanese, Cantonese, Mandarin, and some Hakka and Tanka.

I found some pignolia nuts and some canned pineapple, and some garlic and a can of mandarin oranges.