kirin
kirin noun: synonym of qilin; typically used in Japanese contexts.
Noun
kirin (plural kirins)
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Kirin
Kirin
- Synonym of Jilin (a province in northeastern China).
- A single caravan often numbers many as twenty large carts, each with a team of seven animals. In the best caravans, that is those which go into the provinces of Kirin and Hei-lung-chiang and into Mongolia, a team usually consists of a pony in the shafts and six tracing mules three abreast.1904, Alexander Hosie, Manchuria: Its People, Resources and Recent History, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, pages 11–12
- This trade had only begun to grow to considerable proportions in the later 'nineties, and, had not the Chinese Eastern Railway been built and Harbin founded, it is quite certain that steam flour-mills would have been erected by Russian speculators along the course of the Amur river to deal with the...1908, B. L. Putnam Weale, The Coming Struggle in Eastern Asia, Macmillan and Co., Limited, pages 180–181
- Synonyms:
- Jilin
- Synonym of Jilin (a city in the province of the same name).
- A simple example may be given to show the great advantage of railway transport in this country. In order to get from Kuan-cheng-tze to Kirin (a distance of eighty miles or so), we had to hire four carts to carry ourselves and our effects. The journey took three days and cost eighty roubles (£8) for...1904, H. J. Whigham, Manchuria and Korea, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 56
- Many sawmills are now in operation at Antung, at the mouth of the Yalu, and at Kirin on the Sungari River.1922, South Manchuria Railway, Manchuria: Land of Opportunities, New York: Thomas F. Logan, page 46
- Synonyms:
- Jilin
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Kirin
Kirin
- A surname.
Synonyms of kirin
Forms of kirin
| plural | kirins |
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Origin of kirin
Borrowed from Japanese 麒(き)麟(りん) (kirin), from Middle Chinese. Doublet of qilin.
Borrowed from Manchu ᡤᡳᡵᡳᠨ (girin).
Questions about kirin
- What does kirin mean?
- Kirin means synonym of qilin; typically used in Japanese contexts.
- What part of speech is kirin?
- Kirin can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of kirin?
- The plural of kirin is kirins.
Words near kirin in the dictionary
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