Mandarin (common language) / Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language) / ordinary speech

orangutan / (slang) dialect speaker whose speech is corrupted by Standard Mandarin

first tone in Mandarin (high, level tone)

mandarin orange (Citrus reticulata) / tangerine

Chinese language (Mandarin), emphasizing its national nature / Chinese as a primary or secondary school subject / Chinese in the context of the Nationalist Government / Guoyu, book of historical narrative c. 10th-5th century BC

falling tone / fourth tone in modern Mandarin

used in location words (Cantonese) / Mandarin equivalent: 裡｜里

mandarin duck

small shrimp; dried, shelled shrimps / (Tw) (coll.) what (from Taiwanese 啥物, Tai-lo pr. [siánn-mih], equivalent to Mandarin 什麼｜什么)

to look for (Cantonese) / Mandarin equivalent: 找

to look down upon (classical) / to see / to look at (Cantonese) / Mandarin equivalent: 看

"officialese" / bureaucratic language / Mandarin

mandarin fish / Chinese perch (Siniperca chuatsi)

to sleep (Cantonese) / Mandarin equivalent: 睡

falling and rising tone / third tone in modern Mandarin

mandarin duck

(bird species of China) mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) / (fig.) affectionate couple; happily married couple

buttoned mandarin jacket of the Qing dynasty 清代 (1644-1911)

level or even tone / first and second tones in modern Mandarin

mandarin fish / Chinese perch (Siniperca chuatsi)

mandarin orange / tangerine

grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption

to not have (Cantonese) (Mandarin equivalent: 沒有｜没有)

so (Cantonese) / Mandarin equivalent: 這樣｜这样

possessive particle (Cantonese) / Mandarin equivalent: 的

pith of mandarin orange

to be at, in or on (Cantonese) / Mandarin equivalent: 在

a reading of a written Chinese word derived from a synonym (typically, a vernacular synonym) (e.g. in Mandarin, 投子 may be pronounced as its synonym 色子, and in Wu dialects, 二 is pronounced as its synonym 兩｜两 "liahn") / to pronounce a word using such a reading / (Japanese linguistics) kun-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from a native Japanese word that matches its meaning rather than from the pronunciation of the character in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: A kun-reading of a character is distinguished from its on-reading(s) 音讀｜音读. For example, 山 has a kun-reading "yama" and an on-reading "san".)

totally exhausted (Cantonese) / Mandarin equivalent: 累

(slang) to battle each other in street dancing (derived from Taiwanese 較, which sounds similar to Mandarin 尬) / (slang) to perform weird dance moves

to sleep (Cantonese) / Mandarin equivalent: 睡覺｜睡觉

Guangdong pidgin (a mix of Standard Mandarin and Cantonese)

(slang) (of a dialect) to be corrupted by Standard Mandarin

Mandarin phonetic symbols (MPS), phonetic alphabet for Chinese used esp. in Taiwan, also known colloquially as Bopomofo (after the first four letters of the alphabet:ㄅㄆㄇㄈ)

to quarrel (Northeastern Mandarin)

to earn one's living (Cantonese) / Mandarin equivalent: 謀生｜谋生

what? (Cantonese) (Mandarin equivalent: 什麼｜什么)

a kind of waterbird resembling a mandarin duck

mandarin fish

(Tw) (vulgar) what the hell? (from Taiwanese 啥潲, Tai-lo pr. [siánn-siâ], equivalent to Mandarin 什麼｜什么)

(Tw) (coll.) matter; thing (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [tāi-tsì], equivalent to Mandarin 事情)

unattractive (Cantonese) / Mandarin equivalent: 不好看

that (Cantonese) / Mandarin equivalent: 那

the four tones of Middle Chinese: level tone 平聲｜平声, rising tone 上聲｜上声, departing tone 去聲｜去声 and entering tone 入聲｜入声 / the four tones of Modern Standard Mandarin

Mandarin Phonetic Symbols 1 (official name of the phonetic system of writing Chinese used in Taiwan) / Bopomofo / abbr. to 注音一式

(coll.) Mandarin Chinese spoken with a thick regional accent

a treacherous official / a mandarin who conspires against the state

home / family (Cantonese) / Mandarin equivalent: 家

Sichuanese pidgin (the mix of Standard Mandarin and Sichuanese dialect) / (Tw) surname Trump

(Tw) (slang) don't; must not; won't do (from Taiwanese 毋通, Tai-lo pr. [m̄-thang], similar to Mandarin 不要 or 不行)

Jianghuai Mandarin

Mandarin Phonetic Symbols 1 / Bopomofo / abbr. for 國語注音符號第一式｜国语注音符号第一式

Hong Kong pidgin (a mix of Standard Mandarin and Cantonese)

sleepy (Cantonese) / Mandarin equivalent: 睏｜困

first tone in Mandarin / high, level tone

third tone in Mandarin / falling-rising tone

second tone in Mandarin / rising tone

fourth tone in Mandarin / falling tone

retroflex sound (e.g. in Mandarin zh, ch, sh, r)

retroflex sound (e.g. in Mandarin zh, ch, sh, r)

corrupt official / grasping functionary / greedy mandarin

grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption

wild mandarin duck / (derog.) illicit lovers / unorthodox couple

Chinese name adopted by Kevin Rudd (1957-), Australian politician proficient in Mandarin, prime minister 2007-2010 and 2013

(Cantonese-influenced Mandarin) (coll.) traffic cone

lit. mandarin ducks playing in the water / fig. to make love

Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds) / derogatory reference to populist and romantic writing around 1900

Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds) literary school around 1900, criticized as populist and romantic by socialist realists

"mandarin ducks" pot (hot pot with a divider, containing spicy soup on one side, mild soup on the other)