Mandarin
German, noun[ˌmandaˈʁiːn]
Mandarin is spelled M-A-N-D-A-R-I-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 41,097th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mandarin is a German masculine noun meaning “mandarin (Chinese Imperial official)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “hoher Beamter im kaiserlichen China”.
What does Mandarin mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemandarin (Chinese Imperial official)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. hoher Beamter im kaiserlichen China
noun: 1. die chinesische Amtssprache
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Mandarin
- Mandarins genitive
- Mandarines genitive
- Mandarine plural
- Mandarinen dative definite plural
- (das) Mandarin nominative singular
- des Mandarin genitive singular
- des Mandarins genitive singular
- (dem) Mandarin dative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Mandarin?
- [ˌmandaˈʁiːn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Mandarin
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Mandarin in German?
Mandarin appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).