Definition of Mandarin dialect

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

Exact synonyms: Beijing Dialect, Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese
Generic synonyms: Chinese

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mandarin Dialect

Manchus
Mancona bark
Mancs
Mancunian
Mancunians
Manda
Mandaean
Mandaeanism
Mandaeans
Mandaeism
Mandaic
Mandalay
Mandara
Mandarin
Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin dialect (current term)
Mandate of Heaven
Mandchuria
Mande
Mandeali
Mandean
Mandeanism
Mandela
Mandelamine
Mandelbrot
Mandelbrot set
Mandelin's reagent
Mandelshtam
Mandelstam
Mandevilla

Literary usage of Mandarin dialect

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memorials of Protestant Missionaries to the Chinese: Giving a List of Their by Alexander Wylie (1867)
"This is a translation of an American tract into the Mandarin dialect. ft ... It is in the Mandarin dialect, A revised edition in 12 leaves was published at ..."

2. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1909)
"A grammar of the Chinese colloquial language commonly called the Mandarin dialect. Shanghai: Presbyterian Mission Press, 1864. ..."

3. The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal (1888)
"Does Mr. Faber know there is a Northern and a Southern Mandarin dialect ? If Northern Mandarin speakers adopt it as an authority on their Maa- darin, ..."

4. Notes and Queries on China and Japan (1867)
"If then, as appears to be the case, the Punti Dialect is the best specimen of the first, the Mandarin dialect of the latest phase iu the process of ..."

5. L. Richard's ... Comprehensive Geography of the Chinese Empire and by Louis Richard, M. Kennelly (1908)
"Fouler M" A. — An English and Chinese Dictionary in the Mandarin dialect. ... \\'illi.irns — The Mandarin dialect as exhibited in the Wu-Fang Tuen Yin. ..."

6. The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian: Concerning the Kingdoms and by Marco Polo, Henry Yule, Henri Cordier (1903)
"But that common stock is not the modern Mandarin dialect, but the ancient form of the Chinese language as spoken some 3000 years ago. ..."

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