Definitions
1.nounA high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire
2.nounA pedantic or elitist bureaucrat
3.nounA pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles
4.nounA senior civil servant
5.adjectivePertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist
6.nounA perching duck that has a red bill, large white crescent above the eye and reddish face, Aix galericulata.