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	mandarin - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Mandarin (Portuguese mandarin,”counselor”), an educated public official belonging to one of nine ranks, during the centuries of the Chinese Empire....
		Mandarin Duck, common name for a perching duck closely allied to the wood duck.
		The mandarin duck is found in temperate regions of eastern Asia....
	encarta.msn.com /mandarin.html (165 words)

	Mandarin (bureaucrat) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Mandarin was a bureaucrat in imperial China.
		The mandarins were the founders and core of the Chinese gentry.
		The wardrobe of a mandarin during the Qing Dynasty involved Manchu official headwear and a mandarin square.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mandarin_(bureaucrat) (233 words)

	Bureaucrat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A bureaucrat is a member of a bureaucracy, usually within an institution of the government.
		The term "bureaucrat" today has largely negative connotations, so those who are the members of a governmental bureaucracy usually prefer terms such as civil servant or public servant to describe their jobs.
		Bureaucrats of the EU are frequently termed eurocrats in the English language in Europe - a portmanteau of European Union (or Europe) and bureaucrat.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bureaucrats (335 words)

	Mandarin - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Mandarin collar, a short shirt or jacket collar that is not folded.
		Mandarin was a wealthy 19th century community on the St.
		The Mandarins are a modern Division I drum and bugle corps from Sacramento, California.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Mandarin (259 words)

	Chinese language - The Encyclopedia
		Standard Mandarin is the official language of the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan), as well as one of four official languages of Singapore.
		Standard Mandarin is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.
		The presence of Mandarin in SÃ¬chuÄn is largely due to a plague in the 12th century.
	www.the-encyclopedia.com /description/Chinese_language (5934 words)

	Mandarin Summary
		Mandarin is believed to have originated as a form of common language among speakers of different Chinese dialects, loosely based on some form of northern Chinese.
		Mandarin collar, a short shirt or jacket collar that is not folded.
		The Mandarins are a modern Division I drum and bugle corps from Sacramento, California.
	www.bookrags.com /Mandarin (1544 words)

	Vets With A Mission - Early History of Vietnam - part 1
		Mandarins were able to conscript native troops to battle the remaining insurgents, and taxes were heavily increased to pay for the military campaigns.
		One creative mandarin tried to convince his peers that Vietnam was the parent of all its people and that fighting for one's country was the equivalent of ancestor worship.
		While a mandarin, for example, might emphasize the heavenly mandate of the ruler and the necessity of strict obedience, the local scholars would argue that the ruler's mandate really came from the people and insist upon the right of rebellion against an ineffective emperor.
	www.vwam.com /vets/history/history1.htm (5375 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Mandarin
		Mandarin (Portuguese mandarin,”counselor”), an educated public official belonging to one of nine ranks, during the centuries of the Chinese Empire.
		Mandarin Duck, common name for a perching duck closely allied to the wood duck.
		The mandarin duck is found in temperate regions of eastern Asia.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Mandarin.html (89 words)

	Chinese language - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Chinese language, spoken in the form of Standard Mandarin, is the official language of the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan, as well as one of four official languages of Singapore, and one of six official languages of the United Nations.
		Standard Mandarin is based on the Beijing dialect, which is the dialect of Mandarin as spoken in Beijing, and the governments intend for speakers of all Chinese speech varieties to use it as a common language of communication.
		The presence of Mandarin in Sichuan is largely due to a plague in the 12th century.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=5751 (5466 words)

	Mandarin
		Mandarin immediately recognizes them for what they are and that they can be used to his benefit, but that he was tapping but a fraction of their potential.
		Mandarin asks what his solution is. Matsuo says that he offers a means to know his enemy’s secrets so that he might strike at them by cutting out their hearts.
		Mandarin says that all that is necessary is knowledge and power, and that he has all of both that he needs in the Heart of Darkness.
	www.leaderslair.com /marvelvillains/mandarin.html (8578 words)

	Mandarin - Britannica Concise
		Mandarin Chinese is spoken in all of China north of the Yangtze River and in much of the rest of the country and is the native language of two-thirds of the population.
		It is called Mandarin because of the groups of figures in mandarin dress that appear in the decorative panels—painted mainly in gold, red, and rose pink and framed in underglaze blue—that characterize the ware.
		mandarin - in imperial China, a public official of any of nine grades or classes that were filled by individuals from the ranks of lesser officeholders who passed examinations in Chinese literary classics.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9371146 (508 words)

	Mandarin Definition / Mandarin Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		An Imperial Chinese bureaucrat, see mandarin (China), and in the UKThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and a member of the European Union.
		The Mandarin is a supervillainA supervillain is a variant of the villain character type, who is known for malevolent deeds and who often has a colorful name and costume and/or other eccentricities.
		Mandarin is the main language of government, the media and education in China.
	www.elresearch.com /Mandarin (756 words)

	Mandarin - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Mandarin
		Historically it derives from the language spoken by mandarins, Chinese imperial officials, from the 7th century onwards.
		Through them the symbols of the mandarin duck and drake, the one-winged birds, the tree whose boughs are interwoven, are revealed.
		As for our mandarin with whom we travelled, he was respected as a king, surrounded always with his gentlemen, and attended in all his appearances with such pomp, that I saw little of him but at a distance.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Mandarin (216 words)

	mandarin - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Mandarin (official) (Portuguese, “counsellor”), an educated public official belonging to one of the nine ranks of the upper civil service in...
		Mandarin Chinese (putonghua) is the language spoken in and around Beijing.
		The dialect of Beijing has become the standard for northern Mandarin, the...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /mandarin.html (148 words)

	DM's Esoteric Programming Languages - Haifu
		If the Celestial Bureaucrat encounters a numeric literal, it is beneath his dignity and he ignores it and ascends to the next rung of the Bureaucracy.
		This causes the Celestial Bureaucrat to ascend a number of rungs equal to the number or numeric variable at the Delegate's rung.
		This causes the Celestial Bureaucrat to descend a number of rungs equal to the number or numeric variable at the Delegate's rung.
	www.dangermouse.net /esoteric/haifu.html (2480 words)

	Mandarin - TheBestLinks.com - Fish, Mandarin (linguistics), Putonghua, Qing Dynasty, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mandarin - TheBestLinks.com - Fish, Mandarin (linguistics), Putonghua, Qing Dynasty,...
		Mandarin, Fish, Mandarin (linguistics), Putonghua, Qing Dynasty, United Kingdom...
		The wardrobe of a mandarin during the Qing Dynasty involved a Manchu official headware and a mandarin square.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Mandarin.html (153 words)

	Mandarin language resources
		The phonology of Standard Mandarin is based on that of the Beijing dialect, which belongs to Mandarin, a large and very diverse group of Chinese dialects spoken across northern and southwestern China...
		Mandarin, or Beifanghua (Simplified Chinese: ???, Traditional Chinese: ???; pinyin: Beifanghuà; literally "Northern Dialect(s)"), or Guanhua (Traditional Chinese: ??, Simplified Chinese: ??; pinyin: Guanhuà; literally "speech of officials"), or Mandarin Chinese is a category of related Chinese dialects spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.
		Standard Mandarin functions as the official spoken language of the People's Republic of China, the official language of the Republic of China (Taiwan), and one of the four official languages of Singapore.
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Mandarin.html (1405 words)

	Mandarin: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		An Imperial Chinese bureaucrat, see mandarin (China) (mandarin (China): more facts about this subject), and in the UK (UK: A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland), by analogy, any government bureaucrat.
		The Mandarin (The Mandarin: the mandarin is a marvel comics supervillain and enemy of iron man....
		The fruit mandarin orange (mandarin orange: 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), Citrus reticulata.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/mandarin (323 words)

	The Peking Duck: Did you know....
		Mandarin is a word of Portuguese origin, referring to a high government official or bureaucrat.
		Mandarin is the language of the politically dominant North and the language of government, therefore, Cantonese refer to it as the "bureaucrats' language".
		Mandarin in the loose sense usually includes the dialects spoken in the southwest (Sichuan, Yunnan, etc.) which sound quite different from Northern versions but are usually still mutually intelligible to a certain degree.
	www.pekingduck.org /archives/002116.php (1835 words)

	FanFiction.Net : Dictionary & Thesaurus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Hence: A powerful government official or bureaucrat, especially one who is pedantic and has a strong sense of his own importance and privelege.
		It is thought to be of Chinese origin, and is counted a distinct species (Citrus reticulata formerly Citrus nobilis); called also mandarin orange and tangerine.
		Mandarin yellow (Chem.), an artificial aniline dyestuff used for coloring silk and wool, and regarded as a complex derivative of quinoline.
	www.fanfiction.net /dictionary.php?word=mandarin (232 words)

	Mandarin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mandarin, a bureaucrat of Imperial China, Vietnam and Korea, and in the United Kingdom and Canada, by analogy, any government bureaucrat
		Mandarin, a supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe known as The Mandarin, one of the major archenemies of Iron Man
		Mandarin, Florida, a wealthy 19th century community on the St.
	www.buzznet.com /buzzwords/mandarin (234 words)

	CHINESE WRITTEN LANGUAGE : Encyclopedia Entry
		Thus for example, although the number one is "yī" in Mandarin, "yat" in Cantonese and "tsit" in Hokkien, they derive from a common ancient Chinese word and are written with the same character: 一.
		Pinyin is the official Mandarin romanization system for the People's Republic of China, and the official one used in Singapore (see also Chinese language romanisation in Singapore).
		Since the Dungan language is usually considered a dialect of Mandarin Chinese, the Dungan alphabet can also be considered a cyrillization of one dialect of the Chinese language, albeit one used in a very specific context.
	bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Chinese_written_language (3494 words)

	A Sino-Hellenic Humanism? \| The New America Foundation
		French philosophes admired Confucian mandarins; Voltaire undertook to write a universal history, in which he treated non-Western civilizations with respect; Goethe hoped for the emergence of Weltliteratur or "world literature," and contributed to the process by writing imitations of Chinese and Persian poetry as well as of ancient Greek and Roman forms.
		In the absence of something like the ideal of the Confucian mandarin whose qualifications are general erudition and practical wisdom, Western civil and military services, since they became professionalized a few generations ago, have tended to think of administrators and narrow specialists in technical tasks.
		The mandarin is more likely to exercise bureaucratic discretion wisely, with an eye to morality and larger political consequences, than a technocrat afflicted with tunnel vision.
	www.newamerica.net /publications/articles/2000/a_sino_hellenic_humanism (2294 words)

	the mandarin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mandarin, Florida, a wealthy 19th century community on the St. John's River in Florida, since absorbed into the city limits of Jacksonville.
		The Mandarins Drum and Bugle Corps are a modern Division I drum and bugle corps from Sacramento, California.
		Mandarin (novel), a 1983 Robert Elegant novel published by Simon and Schuster.
	26608-mandarin.134.upinhistory.com (680 words)

	Chambers Reference Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		mandarin noun 1 a (also mandarin orange) a small citrus fruit, similar to the tangerine, with deep orange skin that peels easily; b the tree that produces this fruit.
		2 (Mandarin or Mandarin Chinese) a) the name given to the form of Chinese spoken in the north, centre and west of China; b) the official spoken language of China, based on the Beijing variety of this language.
		3 a high-ranking official or bureaucrat, especially one who is thought to be outside political control • at the mercy of the mandarins at Whitehall.
	www.chambersharrap.co.uk /chambers/features/chref/chref.py/main?query=mandarin&title=21st (271 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mandarin, from Portuguese via Malay and Hindi mantri, from Sanskrit mantrin, 'counsellor'.
		The Chinese language is spoken by 1.3 billion citizens of the PR of C and 23 million Taiwanese as well as over 60 m illion overseas Chinese all over the world.
		This nationally uniform variant is based on the dialect spoken in Beijing and its environs, and also known as 'putonghua'.
	www.linguasinicayangshuo.com /defmandarin.htm (423 words)

	CBC News - Viewpoint: Larry Zolf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mutterings about the political power of the unelected bureaucrats is being heard loud and clear in Liberal politico circles.
		The unelected King was part and parcel of a new breed of bureaucrats attracted to government work by the enormous scope it provided for wielding influence and power.
		Not only had the media glorified the Canadian mandarins but the politicians saw in them the providers of expertise and solutions to their problems.
	www.cbc.ca /news/viewpoint/vp_zolf/20020128.html (1261 words)

	Mandarin: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The 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)
		The Mandarin (The mandarin is a marvel comics supervillain and enemy of iron man....)
		The fruit mandarin orange (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)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/mandarin (697 words)

	Mandarin has a number of meanings The language... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The language Mandarin Mandarin, or a specific standardized dialect, such as Putonghua Putonghua or Guoyu Guoyu.
		An Imperial Chinese bureaucrat bureaucrat, and in the UK UK, by analogy, any government bureaucrat.
		The wardrobe of a mandrin during the Qing Dynasty Qing Dynasty involved a Manchu official headware Manchu official headware and a mandarin square mandarin square.
	www.biodatabase.de /Mandarin (141 words)

	Trans-Siberian Railway overland pack - Lonely Planet Travel Guide Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mandarin is the most widely spoken language in the world.
		The standard form of Mandarin is based on the dialect of Mandarin spoken in Beijing.
		This is the form of Mandarin youâll see and hear in the media and in official government communications.
	shop.lonelyplanet.com /product_detail.cfm?productID=2303&rgnID=4&rgn=Europe&countryID=280&country=Russia& (1007 words)

	mandarin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Basically, it is a humorous, studio entertainment variety show in Mandarin that features the funny side of ordinary and extraordinary Malaysians.
		Mandarin Oriental To Open Luxury Hotel In BarcelonaEurope Travel News, Ireland - Apr 16, 2006Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group has today announced that it will manage a new, luxurious hotel currently under development in Barcelona.
		The hotel was the Kahala Hilton, until bought by the Mandarin group in 1995.
	www.33beat.com /mandarin.html (333 words)

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