Kirin may refer to:

Mythology and fiction

Qilin The qilin (; ) is a legendary hooved chimerical creature that appears in Chinese mythology, and is said to appear with the imminent arrival or passing of a sage or illustrious ruler. Qilin are a specific type of the mythological family of ...

or Kirin, a mythical creature known in various East Asian cultures ** Ki-rin (''Dungeons & Dragons''), a type of monster in ''D&D'' ** Kirin, a type of monster in ''

Monster Hunter is a Japanese media franchise centered on a series of fantasy-themed action role-playing video games that started with the game '' Monster Hunter'' for the PlayStation 2, released in 2004. Titles have been released across a variety of platforms ...

'' ** Kirin, a type of creature in the '' My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'' series

Places

Jilin Jilin (; alternately romanized as Kirin or Chilin) is one of the three provinces of Northeast China. Its capital and largest city is Changchun. Jilin borders North Korea ( Rasŏn, North Hamgyong, Ryanggang and Chagang) and Russia (Prim ...

or Kirin, a province in northeastern China **

Jilin City Jilin City (), alternately romanized as Kirin, is the second-largest city and former capital of Jilin province in northeast China. As of the 2020 census, 3,623,713 people resided within its administrative area of and 1,895,865 in its buil ...

or Kirin, a city in the province of Jilin, China * Kirin, Croatia, a settlement in Vrginmost

Companies and products

* Subsidiaries of Kirin Holdings: **

Kirin Company is a Japanese integrated beverages company. It is a subsidiary of Kirin Holdings Company, Limited. Its major operating units include Kirin Brewery Company, Limited, Mercian Corporation and Kirin Beverages Company, Limited. Kirin is a member o ...

, a Japanese beverages company **

Kyowa Kirin is a Japanese pharmaceutical and biotechnology company under the Kirin Holdings, and is among the 40 largest in the world by revenue. The company is headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo and is a member of the Nikkei 225 stock index. History On ...

, a Japanese pharmaceutical company *

Brasil Kirin Brasil Kirin was a Brazilian brewery and drink company, the second largest in the country after AmBev. Founded in 1939 as Schincariol, the company was purchased in 2011 by the Kirin Company. In 2017, Kirin sold the company to Heineken N.V. of th ...

, a Brazilian brewery and beverage company * Kirin, a series of SoCs produced by

HiSilicon HiSilicon () is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company based in Shenzhen, Guangdong and wholly owned by Huawei. HiSilicon purchases licenses for CPU designs from ARM Holdings, including the ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore, ARM Cortex-M3, ARM Cortex-A7 MP ...

Sports

Kirin Cup Soccer The is an association football tournament organised in Japan by the Kirin Brewery Company. The host, Japan, is a participant in every edition. The tournament was founded in 1978 then known as Japan Cup (International competition which nationa ...

, an association football tournament organised in Japan *

Kirin Open The Kirin Open was a golf tournament in Japan. It was founded in 1972 as the season ending event on the Asia Golf Circuit, replacing the Yomiuri International which had been cancelled when sponsors decided to discontinue the event. It was also a ...

, a Japanese golf tournament from 1974 to 2001 * Kirin (chess), one of three shogi pieces in large shogi variants: **

Chu shogi Chu shogi ( or Middle Shogi) is a Abstract strategy game, strategy board game native to Japan. It is similar to modern shogi (sometimes called Japanese chess) in its rules and gameplay. Its name means "mid-sized shogi", from a time when there wer ...

, which uses one piece per player **

Dai shogi Dai shogi (大将棋, 'large chess') or Kamakura dai shogi (鎌倉大将棋) is a chess variant native to Japan. It derived from Heian era shogi, and is similar to standard shogi (sometimes called Japanese chess) in its rules and game play. Dai sh ...

, which uses one piece per player **

Taikyoku shogi is the largest known variant of shogi (Japanese chess). The game was created around the mid-16th century (presumably by priests) and is based on earlier large board shogi games. Before the rediscovery of taikyoku shogi in 1997, tai shogi was ...

, which uses the Kirin (麒麟) and Kirin-master (麟師) pieces

Other uses

* ''Kirin'' (manga), a 1987 Japanese manga series * Kirin language or Kili, a Tungusic language of Russia and China

People with the name

Ivica Kirin Ivica Kirin () (born 14 June 1970) is a Croatian politician who was the interior minister of Croatia from 2005 to 2008. He resigned as interior minister on 29 December 2007 after being pictured with Mladen Markač on a boar hunt. Markač was ...

(born 1970), former Interior Minister of Croatia * Kirin J. Callinan (born 1986), Australian singer and songwriter *

Kirin Kiki (15 January 1943 – 15 September 2018) was a Japanese actress for Japanese cinema and television. Biography Kiki was born on January 15, 1943, in Kanda, Tokyo. Her father was a master of the ''biwa'' lute and a former police officer. Her moth ...

(1943–2018), Japanese TV and film actress *

Kirin Narayan Kirin Narayan (born November 1959) is an Indian-born American anthropologist, folklorist and writer. Early life, education, and career Narayan is the daughter of Narayan Ramji Contractor, a civil engineer from Nashik, and Didi Kinzinger, a Ger ...