Jilin

• Ji Lin
• (from Wade–Giles) Chi-lin

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

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiːˈlɪn/

Jilin

1. A province of China. Capital: Changchun.
   • 2008 [1935], Kim, Il-sung, “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], Blofeld, John, “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, Wu, Huizhong; 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.
2. A prefecture-level city in Jilin, China.

• (from Manchu) Kirin

• Latin: jilinensis

• lijin

Jilin f

1. Jilin (a province of China)