騏驎

騏驎

Chinese

		piebald horse
trad. (騏驎)		騏	驎
simp. (骐𬴊)		骐	𬴊
variant forms		騏麟／骐麟

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qílín

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˊ ㄌㄧㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kei⁴ leon⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Pinyin: qílín
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˊ ㄌㄧㄣˊ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyilin
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi³⁵ lin³⁵/
    • Homophones:

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      edit edit 淇淋 麒麐 麒麟

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: kei⁴ leon⁴
    • Yale: kèih lèuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kei⁴ loen⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: kéi⁴ lên⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰei̯²¹ lɵn²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɡɨ  liɪn/▼

Rime
Character	騏	驎
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	之 (19)	眞 (43)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	渠之切	力珍切
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	qí	lín

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡɯ  rin/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	騏
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qí
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	騏	驎
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	9954	8207
Phonetic component	其	粦
Rime group	之	眞
Rime subdivision	0	1
Corresponding MC rime	其	㷠
Old Chinese	/*ɡɯ/	/*rin/
Notes		見爾雅

Noun

騏驎

1. a kind of fine horse
2. Alternative form of 麒麟 (qílín).

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
騏	驎
き Hyōgaiji	りん Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

Noun

騏驎 (hiragana きりん, rōmaji kirin)

1. Alternative spelling of 麒麟