(transitive) To make something or someone Mandarin.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of Mandarinize

simple past tense and past participle of Mandarinize

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mandarinize

simple past tense and past participle of mandarinize

(transitive) To adapt for the use of government bureaucrats, or mandarins.

(historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire. / A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat. / (often derogatory) A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.

Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist.

A small, sweet citrus fruit. / A tree of the species Citrus reticulata. / (color) An orange colour.

Standard Mandarin, an official language of China and Taiwan, and one of four official languages in Singapore; Putonghua, Guoyu or Huayu.