Mandarin (bureaucrat)
Historical term for bureaucrat scholars in China, Korea, and Vietnam / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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See also: Scholar-official
A mandarin (Chinese: 官; pinyin: guān) was a bureaucrat scholar in the history of China, Korea and Vietnam.
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The term is generally applied to the officials appointed through the imperial examination system.