騏驎

Chinese

piebald horse
trad. (騏驎)
simp. (骐𬴊) 𬴊
alternative forms 騏麟骐麟

Etymology

mythic beast
See 麒麟 (qílín)
fine horse, steed
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From sense "qilin"?”)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (30) (37)
Final () (19) (43)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter gi lin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɡɨ/ /liɪn/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɡɨ/ /lin/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɡie/ /ljen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/gɨ/ /lin/
Li
Rong
/ɡiə/ /liĕn/
Wang
Li
/ɡĭə/ /lĭĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/gi/ /li̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
lín
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
kei4 lan4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ gi ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɡ](r)ə/
English black-mottled grey horse

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 9954 8207
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡɯ/ /*rin/
Notes

Noun

騏驎

  1. (literary) fine horse; steed
  2. Alternative form of 麒麟 (qílín)

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Hyōgaiji
りん
Hyōgaiji
on’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 騏驎 – see the following entry.
麒麟きりん
[noun] [from 720] 麒麟, 騏驎: (mythology, Chinese mythology) a qilin
[noun] [date unknown] 麒麟, 騏驎: (shogi) the kirin, a piece in chūshōgi and larger shogi variants
[noun] [from 1798] 麒麟, 騏驎, キリン: a giraffe (mammal)
Alternative spelling
キリン
(This term, 騏驎, is an alternative spelling (general use) of the above term.)
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