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say it: kin
qin is a noun meaning "the Chinese dynasty (from 246 BC to 206 BC) that established the first centralized imperial government and built much of the Great Wall". It is pronounced /ˈkɪn/ — kin. It carries one recorded sense.
the Chinese dynasty (from 246 BC to 206 BC) that established the first centralized imperial government and built much of the Great Wall
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for qin come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.