"Jilin" meaning in English

See Jilin in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /d͡ʒiːˈlɪn/
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 吉林 (Jílín), from Manchu ᡤᡳᡵᡳᠨ (girin). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|cmn-pinyin|-}} Hanyu Pinyin, {{der|en|cmn|吉林|tr=Jílín}} Mandarin 吉林 (Jílín), {{der|en|mnc|ᡤᡳᡵᡳᠨ}} Manchu ᡤᡳᡵᡳᠨ (girin) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Jilin
  1. A province of China. Capital: Changchun. Categories (place): Jilin, Places in China, Provinces of China Related terms (Provinces): Anhui · Fujian · Guangdong · Gansu · Guizhou · Henan · Hubei · Hebei · Hainan · Heilongjiang · Hunan · Jilin · Jiangsu · Jiangxi · Liaoning · Qinghai · Sichuan · Shandong · Shaanxi · Shanxi · Taiwan · Yunnan · Zhejiang (english: claimed) Translations (province of China): جِيلِين (jilīn) [masculine] (Arabic), Գիրին (Girin) (Armenian), 吉林 (gat¹ lam⁴) (Chinese Cantonese), 吉林 (Jílín) (Chinese Mandarin), Ťi-lin (Czech), 吉林 (Gék-lìng) (Eastern Min Chinese), Jilin (Finnish), გირინი (girini) (Georgian), Τζιλίν (Tzilín) (Greek), Csilin (Hungarian), 吉林 (Kitsurin) (alt: きつりん) (Japanese), 지린 (Jirin) (Korean), 길림 (gillim) (Korean), Dzjiliņa (Latvian), Dzilinas (Lithuanian), Girinas (Lithuanian), Џилин (Džilin) (Macedonian), ᡤᡳᡵᡳᠨ ᡠᠯᠠ (girin ula) (Manchu), ᡤᡳᡵᡳᠨ (girin) (Manchu), جیلین (Persian), Jilin [feminine] (Portuguese), Цзили́нь (Czilínʹ) [masculine] (Russian), Гири́н (Girín) [masculine] (Russian), ᡤᡞᠷᡞᠨ (girin) (Sibe), Ҷилин (Jilin) (Tajik), ཅི་ལིན་ཞིང་ཆེན (ci lin zhing chen) (Tibetan), Cát Lâm (Vietnamese), Gizlinz (Zhuang)
    Sense id: en-Jilin-en-name-mn3IFKR- Disambiguation of 'Provinces': 62 38 Disambiguation of 'province of China': 66 34
  2. A prefecture-level city in Jilin, China. Categories (place): Cities in Jilin, Places in China, Places in Jilin Synonyms: Ji Lin, Chi-lin (alt: Wade–Giles) Related terms (Autonomous regions): Guangxi · Inner Mongolia · Ningxia · Tibet Autonomous Region · Xinjiang Related terms (Municipalities): Beijing · Tianjin · Shanghai · Chongqing Related terms (Special administrative regions): Hong Kong · Macau
    Sense id: en-Jilin-en-name-9cv1KjCL Categories (other): Eastern Min terms with redundant transliterations, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Armenian translations, Terms with Cantonese translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Eastern Min translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Latvian translations, Terms with Lithuanian translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Manchu translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Tajik translations, Terms with Tibetan translations, Terms with Vietnamese translations, Terms with Xibe translations, Terms with Zhuang translations Disambiguation of Eastern Min terms with redundant transliterations: 19 81 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 83 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 13 87 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 21 79 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 14 86 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 24 76 Disambiguation of Terms with Armenian translations: 23 77 Disambiguation of Terms with Cantonese translations: 19 81 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 21 79 Disambiguation of Terms with Eastern Min translations: 16 84 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 21 79 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 22 78 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 17 83 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 23 77 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 18 82 Disambiguation of Terms with Korean translations: 23 77 Disambiguation of Terms with Latvian translations: 19 81 Disambiguation of Terms with Lithuanian translations: 19 81 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 22 78 Disambiguation of Terms with Manchu translations: 22 78 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 17 83 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 19 81 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 20 80 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 18 82 Disambiguation of Terms with Tajik translations: 20 80 Disambiguation of Terms with Tibetan translations: 18 82 Disambiguation of Terms with Vietnamese translations: 23 77 Disambiguation of Terms with Xibe translations: 20 80 Disambiguation of Terms with Zhuang translations: 22 78 Disambiguation of 'Autonomous regions': 12 88 Disambiguation of 'Municipalities': 17 83 Disambiguation of 'Special administrative regions': 12 88
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms (from Manchu): Kirin
Disambiguation of 'from Manchu': 47 53

Alternative forms

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    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Korean translations",
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    "Terms with Manchu translations",
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  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
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      "text": "Latin: jilinensis"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cmn-pinyin",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Hanyu Pinyin",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cmn",
        "3": "吉林",
        "tr": "Jílín"
      },
      "expansion": "Mandarin 吉林 (Jílín)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mnc",
        "3": "ᡤᡳᡵᡳᠨ"
      },
      "expansion": "Manchu ᡤᡳᡵᡳᠨ (girin)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 吉林 (Jílín), from Manchu ᡤᡳᡵᡳᠨ (girin).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Jilin",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "related": [
    {
      "english": "claimed",
      "sense": "Provinces",
      "word": "Anhui · Fujian · Guangdong · Gansu · Guizhou · Henan · Hubei · Hebei · Hainan · Heilongjiang · Hunan · Jilin · Jiangsu · Jiangxi · Liaoning · Qinghai · Sichuan · Shandong · Shaanxi · Shanxi · Taiwan · Yunnan · Zhejiang"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Autonomous regions",
      "word": "Guangxi · Inner Mongolia · Ningxia · Tibet Autonomous Region · Xinjiang"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Municipalities",
      "word": "Beijing · Tianjin · Shanghai · Chongqing"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Special administrative regions",
      "word": "Hong Kong · Macau"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Jilin",
        "en:Places in China",
        "en:Provinces of China"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008 [1935], Il-sung Kim, “With the Conviction of Independence”, in Kim Il Sung Works, volume 48, Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House, →OCLC, page 101:",
          "text": "No young Koreans in Jilin accepted Gandhi’s theory. No one was foolish enough to imagine that the outrageous and rapacious Japanese imperialists would hand independence to people on a silver plate, to those who advocated nonviolent disobedience.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "[2008 [1990], John Blofeld, “Roaming the Famous Mountains and Monasteries of Northern China”, in Daniel Reid, transl., My Journey in Mystic China: Old Pu's Travel Diary, Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 115:",
          "text": "His homeland was in Chilin province, and his village was located more than four thousand li (about thirteen hundred miles) from Mount Wutai.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 March 14, Huizhong Wu, Olivia Zhang, Chen Si, “China battles multiple outbreaks, driven by stealth omicron”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-03-14:",
          "text": "The National Health Commission reported 1,337 locally transmitted cases in the latest 24-hour period, including 895 in the industrial province of Jilin. A government notice said that police permission would be required for people to leave the area or travel from one city to another.[…]\nOfficials on Sunday locked down the southern city of Shenzhen, which has 17.5 million people and is a major tech and finance hub that borders Hong Kong. That followed the lockdown of Changchun, home to 9 million people in Jilin province, starting last Friday.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A province of China. Capital: Changchun."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "province",
          "province"
        ],
        [
          "China",
          "China#English"
        ],
        [
          "Changchun",
          "Changchun#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Cities in Jilin",
        "en:Places in China",
        "en:Places in Jilin"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A prefecture-level city in Jilin, China."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Jilin",
          "Jilin#English"
        ],
        [
          "China",
          "China#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/d͡ʒiːˈlɪn/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "from Manchu",
      "word": "Kirin"
    },
    {
      "word": "Ji Lin"
    },
    {
      "alt": "Wade–Giles",
      "word": "Chi-lin"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "jilīn",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "جِيلِين"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "Girin",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "Գիրին"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "gat¹ lam⁴",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "吉林"
    },
    {
      "code": "cdo",
      "lang": "Eastern Min Chinese",
      "roman": "Gék-lìng",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "吉林"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Jílín",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "吉林"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "Ťi-lin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "Jilin"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "girini",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "გირინი"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "Tzilín",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "Τζιλίν"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "Csilin"
    },
    {
      "alt": "きつりん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "Kitsurin",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "吉林"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "Jirin",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "지린"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "gillim",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "길림"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "Dzjiliņa"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "Dzilinas"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "Girinas"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "Džilin",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "Џилин"
    },
    {
      "code": "mnc",
      "lang": "Manchu",
      "roman": "girin ula",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "ᡤᡳᡵᡳᠨ ᡠᠯᠠ"
    },
    {
      "code": "mnc",
      "lang": "Manchu",
      "roman": "girin",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "ᡤᡳᡵᡳᠨ"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "جیلین"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Jilin"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "Czilínʹ",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Цзили́нь"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "Girín",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Гири́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "sjo",
      "lang": "Sibe",
      "roman": "girin",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "ᡤᡞᠷᡞᠨ"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "Jilin",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "Ҷилин"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "ci lin zhing chen",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "ཅི་ལིན་ཞིང་ཆེན"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "Cát Lâm"
    },
    {
      "code": "za",
      "lang": "Zhuang",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "Gizlinz"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Jilin"
  ],
  "word": "Jilin"
}

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