[ Mandarin ] 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 member of an elite intellectual or cultural group any high government official or bureaucrat a high public official of imperial China 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  This definition of [ Mandarin ] is from Google.