Illustration: At a Japanese zoo's giraffe enclosure, an adult giraffe stretches its long neck toward a leafy branch offered by a keeper from a raised feeding platform.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

キリン

kirin

giraffe

Example sentences

  1. キリンは見みたことないよ。

    I’ve never seen a giraffe.

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  2. その動物園どうぶつえんには、キリンがいるんだ。

    There are giraffes in the zoo.

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  3. キリンってなんて鳴なくんだろう？

    What noise do giraffes make?

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