kirin - What does it mean?

'kirin' hits on the web

(wikipedia)

(en-noun)

A mythical Chinese hooved chimerical creature, said to appear in conjunction with the arrival of a sage.

* 1989 , Ernst J. Grube, Eleanor G. Sims, Islamic Art: Volume 3

...a red and gold textile with phoenixes in one row swooping towards qilins in the next amidst a densely foliated ground...

* 2001 , David J. Roxburgh, Prefacing the image: the writing of art history in sixteenth-century Iran

Roundel depicting dragon attacked by qilins ; mounted on an album page.

* 2010 , Molly Blaisdell, Necdet Yilmaz, Truth about Unicorns

When the qilin leaves, the emperor traces the shapes he saw into the dirt.

* qilin