林
Meanings
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- 1.surname Lin
- 2.Japanese surname Hayashi
- 1.(bound form) woods; forest
- 2.(bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people)
- 3.(bound form) a collection (of similar things)
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Wiktionary
- 1.forest; grove; woods
- 2.circle; community; group of similar people or things
- 3.forestry
- 4.a surname, commonly romanized as Lin, Lim, and Lam
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Etymology
Duplication of 木 (“tree”) to give the idea of multiple trees (compare 森), thus a forest. See also the top component of 散 in its original version. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rəm (“jungle; forest; country; field”) (STEDT under PTB *ram). Cognate with 森 (OC *srɯm, “forest”), Mizo ram (“forest; country”), Karbi ram (“jungle”). Or perhaps an area word (Schuessler, 2007), shared with Khmer រាម (riəm, “thick bushy jungle that grows along a stream”), Old Khmer *rām (“inundated forest along a watercourse”), Old Khmer sarāma ~ sarāṃ (“a tract of stunted vegetation”), Mon ရာံ (rèm, “copse; patch of woodland”).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
我以前是護林人。
I used to be a forest ranger.
我自己走進了樹林裡。
I walked in the woods by myself.
我喜歡在樹林裡散步。
I like taking walks in the woods.
一鳥在手勝過二鳥在林。
A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush.
有一個穿過樹林的小路。
There is a path through the wood.
一鳥在手勝過二鳥在林。
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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Derived terms
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