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| | Mandarin - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Mandarin (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | 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. |
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