mandarin

A somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China.

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

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.

A high public official of imperial China.

A member of an elite intellectual or cultural group.

Any high government official or bureaucrat.