Jilin

See also: jílín, Jílín, and Ji Lin

English

Alternative forms

• Ji Lin
• Chi-lin (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 吉林 (Jílín), from Manchu ᡤᡳᡵᡳᠨ (girin).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiːˈlɪn/

Proper noun

Jilin

2. A province of China. Capital: Changchun.
   • [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^[1], Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 115:

     His homeland was in Chilin province, and his village was located more than four thousand li (about thirteen hundred miles) from Mount Wutai.]

   • 2022 March 14, Huizhong Wu, Olivia Zhang, Chen Si, “China battles multiple outbreaks, driven by stealth omicron”, in AP News‎^[2], archived from the original on 14 March 2022:

     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. […]
     Officials 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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Jilin.
4. A prefecture-level city of Jilin, China.
   • 2020 May 13, David Stanway, Se Young Lee, Lusha Zhang, “China's Jilin city imposes travel restrictions after new coronavirus cases”, in Michael Perry, editor, Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 29 March 2025:

     The northeast Chinese city of Jilin is imposing fresh restrictions on travel in order to contain a new coronavirus outbreak, with six new cases reported on Tuesday. […]
     Jilin is the second largest city of Jilin province, which borders North Korea and Russia. It will now temporarily suspend departing or transiting train services for passengers.

Synonyms

• (from Manchu) Kirin

Descendants

• Latin: jilinensis

Translations

province of China

• Arabic: جِيلِين m (jilīn)
• Armenian: Գիրին (hy) (Girin)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 吉林 (gat¹ lam⁴)

  Eastern Min: 吉林 (Gék-lìng)

  Mandarin: 吉林 (zh) (Jílín)

• Czech: Ťi-lin
• Finnish: Jilin
• Georgian: გირინი (girini)
• Greek: Τζιλίν (Tzilín)
• Hungarian: Csilin (hu)
• Japanese: 吉林 (きつりん, Kitsurin)
• Korean: 지린 (Jirin), 길림 (gillim)
• Latvian: Dzjiliņa
• Lithuanian: Dzilinas, Girinas
• Macedonian: Џилин (Džilin)
• Manchu: ᡤᡳᡵᡳᠨ
  ᡠᠯᠠ (girin ula), ᡤᡳᡵᡳᠨ (girin)
• Persian: جی‌لین
• Portuguese: Jilin f
• Russian: Цзили́нь m (Czilínʹ), Гири́н m (Girín)
• Xibe: ᡤᡞᠷᡞᠨ (girin)
• Tajik: Ҷилин (Jilin)
• Tibetan: ཅི་ལིན་ཞིང་ཆེན (ci lin zhing chen)
• Vietnamese: Cát Lâm (vi)
• Zhuang: Gizlinz

Further reading

• “Jilin”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• Jilin, Kirin, Chilin, Chi-lin, Ji Lin at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• “Jilin”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Jilin”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Jilin” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jilin”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1449, column 1: “The name sometimes appears as Chi-lin, or Kirin.”

Anagrams

• lijin

Portuguese

Proper noun

Jilin f

1. Jilin (a province of China)