Mandarin (bureaucrat)
A mandarin (Chinese: 官; pinyin: guān; Cantonese Yale: gun1; Vietnamese: quan) was a bureaucrat in imperial China, and also in the monarchist days of Vietnam where the system of Imperial examinations and scholar-bureaucrats was adopted under Chinese influence
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