Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- lín
English
- female of Chinese unicorn
- see 麒麟[qi2 lin2]
- mythical creature, see 麒麟
粵語
- 神獸，見麒麟
Variants
Words containing 麟
- 麒麟kei4 leon4
(Chinese mythology) qilin
- 火麒麟fo2 kei4 leon4
Sensual Unicorn Magazine, a Hong Kong adult magazine
- 舞麒麟mou5 kei4 leon2
Unicorn dance
- 麒麟座kei4 leon4 zo6
Monoceros constellation
- 麒麟菜kei4 leon4 coi3
eucheuma, a type of red algae (used in TCM)
- 麒麟果kei4 leon4 gwo2
yellow dragon fruit; yellow pitaya; yellow pitahaya
- 麒麟臂kei4 leon4 bei3
muscular arms or fat arms, usually referring to the arms of women, derogatory; 麒麟 is a mythical chimerical creature in Chinese folklore
- 麟經leon4 ging1
another name for the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋
- 麟遊leon4 jau4
see 麟遊縣|麟游县[Lin2 you2 Xian4]
- 麟洛leon4 lok6
- 鳳毛麟角fung6 mou4 leon4 gok3
lit. as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns (idiom)
- 章炳麟zoeng1 bing2 leon4
Zhang Taiyan 章太炎 (1869-1936), scholar, journalist, revolutionary and leading intellectual around the time of the Xinhai revolution
- 麒麟區kei4 leon4 keoi1
Qilin, a district of Qujing City 曲靖市[Qu3 jing4 Shi4], Yunnan
- 麒麟閣kei4 leon4 gok3
Qilin Pavilion, located in the Weiyang Palace, a hall decorated with portraits of famous officials
- 麒麟殿kei4 leon4 din6
see 麒麟閣|麒麟阁[Qi2 lin2 Ge2]
- 騏麟kei4 leon4
variant of 麒麟[qi2 lin2]
- 麟遊縣leon4 jau4 jyun6
Linyou, a county in Baoji City 寶雞市|宝鸡市[Bao3 ji1 Shi4], Shaanxi
- 湯玉麟tong1 juk6 leon4
Tang Yulin (1871-1937), minor warlord in northeast China, sometime governor of Chengde 承德, mostly poor in battle but very successful at accumulating personal wealth
- 薩摩麟saat3 mo1 leon4
Samotherium (early giraffe)
- 林瑞麟lam4 seoi6 leon4
Stephen Lam Sui-lung, a politician in Hong Kong
- 兆麟苑siu6 leon4 jyun2
Siu Lun Court, a public housing estate in New Territories, Hong Kong
- 譚詠麟taam4 wing6 leon4
Alan Tam (1950-), Hong Kong Canto-pop singer and actor
- 麟角鳳觜leon4 gok3 fung6 zeoi2
lit. qilin's horn, phoenix's mouth (idiom)