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kylin

kylin is the alternative form of qilin.

Meaning of qilin

Noun

qilin (plural qilins)

  1. A mythical Chinese hooved chimerical creature, said to appear in conjunction with the arrival of a sage.
    • ...a red and gold textile with phoenixes in one row swooping towards qilins in the next amidst a densely foliated ground...1989, Ernst J. Grube, Eleanor G. Sims, Islamic Art: Volume 3
    Synonyms:
    kirin

Forms of kylin

pluralkylins

Questions about kylin

What is kylin the alternative form of?
Kylin is the alternative form of qilin.

Words near kylin in the dictionary

  1. kyleys
  2. kylices
  3. kylie
  4. kylies
  5. kylikes
  6. kylin
  7. kylins
  8. kylix
  9. kylixes
  10. Kyllo
  11. Kyllonen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kylin (page history and authors); qilin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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