麒麟

きりん キリン

giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis)

麒麟竭

きりんけつ

dragon's blood palm (Daemonorops draco), bright red resin used in medicine, dyes, etc.

麒麟児

きりんじ

child prodigy, wonder child

麒麟草

きりんそう キリンソウ

Kamchatka stonecrop (Sedum kamtschaticum)

木麒麟

もっきりん

Barbados shrub (Pereskia aculeata); Barbados gooseberry; leaf cactus; lemonvine

麒麟菜

きりんさい キリンサイ

Eucheuma muricatum (species of red algae)

マサイ麒麟

マサイきりん

masai giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchii); maasai giraffe; Kilimanjaro giraffe

麒麟羚羊

きりんれいよう キリンレイヨウ

gerenuk (Litocranius walleri), Waller's gazelle

深山秋の麒麟草

みやまあきのきりんそう

European goldenrod (Solidago virgaurea); woundwort

獲麟

かくりん

the end of things (esp. used for one's last writings)

麒麟も老いぬれば駑馬に劣る

きりんもおいぬればどばにおとる

even an outstanding person becomes inferior when getting old

座

ざ

seat, place, position

便座

べんざ

toilet seat

常座

じょうざ

upstage right (on a noh stage)

首座

しゅざ しゅそ

seat of honor, seat of honour, head of the table, head

遷座

せんざ

relocation of a shrine, transfer of an object of worship

運座

うんざ

poetic meeting

鳩座

はとざ

columba (constellation)

安座

あんざ

sitting quietly, sitting cross-legged