female of Chinese unicorn
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麟 is a 23 stroke, simplified and traditional Chinese character and is pronounced as lín in the second tone.
In traditional Chinese the character 麐 may be used.
It is made up of the components 鹿 (deer) and 粦 (phosphorus).
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Pronunciation
We found 1 pronunciation for 麟
Definitions for 麟 pronounced as lín
- female unicorn
- see 麒麟
- variant of 麟[lin2]
Vocabulary
The most common words for 麟 — see all
- qilin (mythical Chinese animal)
- kylin
- Chinese unicorn
- commonly mistranslated as giraffe
- Alan Tam (1950-), Hong Kong Canto-pop singer and actor
- lit. as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns (idiom)
- fig. few and far between