Mandarin (bureaucrat)
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A mandarin was a bureaucrat scholar in the history of China, Korea, and Vietnam.
Three Ming Dynasty mandarins of varying ranks.
A 15th-century portrait of the Ming official Jiang Shunfu. The cranes on his mandarin square indicate that he was a civil official of the sixth rank.
A Qing photograph of a government official with mandarin square embroidered in front
Nguyễn Văn Tường, 1824–1886) was a mandarin of the Nguyễn dynasty in Vietnam.
Mandarin square
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A mandarin square, also known as a rank badge, was a large embroidered badge sewn onto the surcoat of officials in Imperial China, Korea, in Vietnam, and the Ryukyu Kingdom. It was embroidered with de
Qing dynasty mandarin square, 6th civil rank, about 30 cm square.
A 15th-century portrait of the Ming minister Liu Daxia. His mandarin square indicates that he was a civil official of the first rank.
3rd civil rank (peacock). Mid 19th century. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum