Keyword
female unicorn
- Frequency
- #3173
- Strokes
- 23
Readings
lín
Mnemonic
鹿 (deer) gives the meaning and 粦 the sound.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
麒麟
(Chinese mythology) qilin; (old) giraffe
谭咏麟
Alan Tam (1950-), Hong Kong Canto-pop singer and actor
凤毛麟角
lit. as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns (idiom); fig. few and far between
章炳麟
Zhang Taiyan 章太炎 (1869-1936), scholar, journalist, revolutionary and leading intellectual around the time of the Xinhai revolution
麒麟区
Qilin, a district of Qujing City 曲靖市 (QǔjìngShì), Yunnan
汤玉麟
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
麟经
another name for the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋