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Mandrin vs Cantonese - What's the difference?

mandrin | cantonese |

As nouns the difference between mandrin and cantonese

is that mandrin is (medicine) a metal wire or stylet inserted into a flexible catheter to give it shape and firmness while passing through a hollow tubular structure while cantonese is cantonese.

As an adjective cantonese is

cantonese.

mandrin

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (medicine) A metal wire or stylet inserted into a flexible catheter to give it shape and firmness while passing through a hollow tubular structure.

    • Synonyms

    * mandrel

    cantonese

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Relating to Canton.
  • Relating to Cantonese people.
  • Relating to Cantonese language.
  • Relating to Cantonese food/cuisine.

    • Noun

    (Cantonese)
  • (countable) An inhabitant of Canton; a person of Canton descent.

    • Proper noun

    (wikipedia Cantonese) (en proper noun)
  • (uncountable) A Chinese language mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of Mainland China, Guangdong (Canton), Hong Kong, Macau, by the Chinese minorities in Southeast Asia and by many overseas Chinese worldwide.
  • A dialect of the Cantonese language, spoken in Guangzhou (Canton), Hong Kong, Macau, and treated as the standard dialect of the Cantonese language

    • Synonyms

    * (language) Yue Chinese / Yue , Cantonese language , Cantonese dialect * (dialect) Cantonese dialect , Cantonese language

    Hyponyms

    (language) * Cantonese / Cantonese dialect (the dialect of Cantonese language treated as standard) * Hoisanese / Toisanese / Taishanese * Hong Kong Cantonese (the dialect spoken in Hong Kong and Macau)

    See also

    * (yue) * Language list * Guangdong * Guangzhou

    External links

    * * English invariant nouns