MANDARIN CHINESE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mandarin Chinese mean? 

• MANDARIN CHINESE (noun)
  The noun MANDARIN CHINESE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: MANDARIN CHINESE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANDARIN CHINESE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Beijing dialect; Mandarin; Mandarin Chinese; Mandarin dialect

Hypernyms ("Mandarin Chinese" is a kind of...):

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)