Chi-lin

See also: chilin

English

Map including CHI-LIN (KIRIN) (AMS, 1967)

Etymology

From Mandarin 吉林 (Jílín) Wade–Giles romanization: Chi²-lin².

Pronunciation

• enPR: jēʹlǐnʹ

Proper noun

Chi-lin

1. Alternative form of Jilin
   • 1904, Charles Daniel Tenney, Geography of Asia‎^[1], Macmillan and Co., page 23:

     Manchuria is crossed by the Chinese Eastern Railway (the Russian Trans-Siberian Railway), which enters the Hei-lung-chiang Province from the north-west and divides at Harbin (哈爾賓^{[sic – meaning 哈爾濱]}) in the Chi-lin Province, one branch going to Vladivostock (海参威) and the other to Dalny and Port Arthur.

   • 1983, “Mass Media and Conflict Resolution: An Analysis of Letters to the Editor”, in Godwin C. Chu, Francis L.K. Hsu, editors, China's New Social Fabric‎^[2], Kegan Paul International, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 188:

     Conflicts among the cadres themselves were numerous, suggesting contentions among different units of between higher and lower units. For instance, a letter from three cadres of a Chi-lin machine factory said that they had to receive and entertain all kinds of inspection groups during the years, leaving them little time to perform routine duties.

   • 1984, Ki-baik Lee, translated by Edward Willett Wagner, A New History of Korea‎^[3], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 89-90:

     The capital of Parhae, called Sanggyŏng or "High Capital" was located at modern Tung-ching-ch'eng in Hei-lung-chiang province, Manchuria, and there were four secondary capitals- the "Central Capital" at modern Tun-hua in Chi-lin province, Manchuria, "Eastern Capital" at Hun-ch'un in Chi-lin, "Southern Capital" at Hamhŭng in South Hamgyŏng province, Korea, and "Western Capital" at Lin-chiang in Chi-lin [see map p. 70].

   • 1996, Jacques Gernet, translated by J. R. Foster and Charles Hartman, A History of Chinese Civilization‎^[4], 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 436:

     To make up for the absence of a natural barrier the Ming had built a defence line which ran from west of the mouth of the Yalu at K'ai-p'ing, 300 kilometres north of Peking, and another from Shan-hai-kuan to Chi-lin (Kirin).

Translations

Jilin — see Jilin

Further reading

• “Chi-lin” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.

Anagrams

• linchi