You can buy a wall scroll with your favorite Africa-related title in Chinese characters.

This is the Chinese name for the continent of Africa

This is the transliteration to Mandarin Chinese for the Latin / Spanish name África

This is the Chinese name for the country of Algeria

This is the Chinese name for the country of Angola

This is the Chinese name for Anguilla (overseas territory of the United Kingdom).

This is the Chinese name for the country of Benin

This is the Chinese name for the country of Botswana

This is the Chinese name for the country of Burundi

This is the Chinese name for the country of Cameroon

This is the Chinese name for the country of the Central African Republic

This is the Chinese name for the country of Chad.

This is the Chinese name for the country of Comoros

This is the Chinese name for the country of Djibouti

This is the Chinese name for the country of Egypt.

Note: Egypt rests partially in Asia and Africa.

See Also...  Asia

This is the Chinese name for the country of Ethiopia

This is the Chinese name for the Falkland Islands (overseas territory of the United Kingdom).

See Also...  Great Britain | United Kingdom

This is the Chinese name for the country of Gabon

This is the Chinese name for the country of Gambia

This is the Chinese name for the country of Ghana

This is the Chinese name for the country of Guinea

This is the Chinese name for the country of Kenya

This word is the title of a mythical beast of Asia.

The animal is thought to be related to the giraffe, and in some ways, it is a giraffe. However, it is often depicted with the horns of a dragon or deer and sometimes with the body like a horse, but many variations exist.

In Japanese it is pronounced “Kirin” as in “Kirin Ichiban” beer.


Notes:

1. This is sometimes spelled as “kylin”.

2. In Japanese, this is the only Kanji word for giraffe. Therefore in Japan, this word needs context to know whether you are talking about the mythical creature or the long-necked giraffe of Africa.

3. Apparently, this was the first word used for regular giraffes in China (some were brought from Africa to China during the Ming Dynasty - probably around the year 1400). Though the mythical creature may have existed before, the name “qilin” was given to the “new giraffe”. This is because, more than 600 years ago, giraffes somewhat matched the mythical creature's description when Chinese people saw them for the first time. Later, to avoid such an ambiguous title, a three-character word was devised to mean a “giraffe of Africa”. The characters for “qilin” shown here are only for the mythological version in modern Chinese.

4. More information about the qilin / kirin from Wikipedia.

5. This creature is sometimes translated as the “Chinese Unicorn”, even though it is generally portrayed with two horns. I think this is done more for the fantasy aspect of the unicorn and because most westerners don't know what a qilin or kirin is (this avoids a long explanation by the translator).

6. In Korean, this can mean kirin or simply giraffe (usually the mythological creature is what they would think of when seeing these characters alone on a wall scroll).

This is the Chinese name for the country of Lesotho

This is the Chinese name for the country of Liberia

This is the Chinese name for the country of Madagascar

This is the Chinese name for the country of Malawi

This is the Chinese name for the country of Mali

This is the Chinese name for the country of Mauritania

This is the Chinese name for the country of Mauritius

This is the Chinese name for the country of Morocco

This is the Chinese name for the country of Mozambique

This is the Chinese name for the country of Namibia

This is the Chinese name for the country of Niger

This is the Chinese name for the country of Nigeria

This is the Chinese name for the country of Rwanda

This is the Chinese name for the country of Senegal

This is the Chinese name for the country of Seychelles

This is the Chinese name for the country of Sierra Leone

This is the Chinese name for the country of Somalia

This is the Chinese name for the country of South Africa

This is the Chinese name for the country of Sudan

This is the Chinese name for the country of Swaziland

This is the Chinese name for the country of Tanzania

This is the Chinese name for the country of Togo

This is the Chinese name for the country of Uganda

This is the Chinese name for the country of Zambia

This is the Chinese name for the country of Zimbabwe