麟

麟 (Kangxi radical 198, 鹿+12, 23 strokes, cangjie input 戈心火木手 (IPFDQ), four-corner 0925₉, composition ⿰鹿粦)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1511, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47690
• Dae Jaweon: page 2040, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4735, character 20
• Unihan data for U+9E9F
• Unihan data for U+F9F3

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *rin) : semantic 鹿 (“deer”) + phonetic 粦 (OC *rins).

麟

1. Used in 麒麟 (qílín, “qilin (propitious mythological beast)”); also used as its short form.

   • 麟之趾、振振公子。于嗟麟兮。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Lín zhī zhǐ, zhènzhèn gōngzǐ. Yú jiē lín xī. [Pinyin]

     The feet of the Lin: the noble sons of our prince. Ah! They are the Lin!

   1. ^‡ female of qilin
2. ^† big deer
3. ^† Alternative form of 鱗／鳞 (lín, “scale and shell”)
4. Used in 麟麟 (línlín, “bright”).

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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• Go-on: りん (rin)
• Kan-on: りん (rin)

From Middle Chinese 麟 (MC lin). Recorded as Middle Korean 린 (lin) (Yale: lin) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Wikisource 麟 (eumhun 기린 린 (girin rin), South Korea 기린 인 (girin in))

1. Hanja form^? of 린/인 (“giraffe; qilin”).

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

麟: Hán Nôm readings: lân

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