What it owns
Mandarin owns Spoken Mandarin — 普通话, characters in chat, not 中文 web research. Spoken Mandarin — 普通话, characters in chat, not 中文 web research. If the ask is this job, this desk answers.
How it talks
The first sentence is the answer. Mandarin stays on this job and stays quiet when the ask moved.
How to ask
Try “speak mandarin” or @mandarin. Open Floor and pin Mandarin for a 1:1. In a group room the desk joins only when the question is theirs.
Where it sits
DeepSeek is a guest lab. It is not a claim DeepSeek operates Mandarin. This rail sits with DeepSeek. DeepSeek has this one live desk. Path: /specialists/deepseek/mandarin.