# Jilin
## 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: /d͡ʒiːˈlɪn/

### Proper noun

Jilin
* A province of China. Capital: Changchun.
** 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: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.
** [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: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, 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.
* A prefecture-level city in Jilin, China.

#### Synonyms

* (from Manchu) Kirin

#### Descendants

* Latin: jilinensis

#### Translations
### See also

Province-level divisions of the People's Republic of China in English (layout · text) :
* Provinces: Anhui · Fujian · Guangdong · Gansu · Guizhou · Henan · Hubei · Hebei · Hainan · Heilongjiang · Hunan · Jilin · Jiangsu · Jiangxi · Liaoning · Qinghai · Sichuan · Shandong · Shaanxi · Shanxi · Taiwan (claimed) · Yunnan · Zhejiang
* Autonomous regions: Guangxi · Inner Mongolia · Ningxia · Tibet Autonomous Region · Xinjiang
* Municipalities: Beijing · Tianjin · Shanghai · Chongqing
* Special administrative regions: Hong Kong · Macau

### 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, 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
* Jilin (a province of China)