mandarin vs functionary

mandarin and functionary both are nouns.

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

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

Other hypernyms of mandarin include official.

mandarin (noun)	functionary (noun)
a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China	a worker who holds or is invested with an office
a high public official of imperial 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