mandarin vs Chinese

Chinese vs mandarin

mandarin and Chinese both are nouns.

mandarin is not an adjective while Chinese is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mandarin	Yes	No	No	No
Chinese	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, Chinese is a hypernym of mandarin; that is, Chinese is a word with a broader meaning than mandarin:

mandarin: a high public official of imperial China
Chinese: a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China

mandarin (noun)	Chinese (noun)
a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China	any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system
a high public official of imperial China	a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
any high government official or bureaucrat
a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia

mandarin (adjective)	Chinese (adjective)
	of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures
	of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language

Difference between mandarin and Chinese

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