Noun:

1. shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia

2. a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group

3. any high government official or bureaucrat

4. a high public official of imperial China

5. a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China

6. the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China

mandarin orange橘子

Mandarin Chinesen.(中国)官话；国语，普通话

Citrus reticulata红橘

1. Of course I can speak Mandarin.
   中国话我自然会说。
2. she was sufficiently fluent in Mandarin.
   她普通话说得十分流利。
3. The foreigner can speak good Mandarin.
   这个外国人国语说得很好。
4. That's why we need more Mandarin and Cantonese speakers on the staff.
   这就是为什麽我们需要更多会说国语和广东话的员工。
5. He was a mandarin of the Ming dynasty.
   他是清朝的官吏。