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forest / CL:
HSK 4
woods / grove / forest
HSK 4
serious fire (in a city or a forest etc)
HSK 5
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(bound form) woods; forest / (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people) / (bound form) a collection (of similar things)
forest bathing: spending time in a forest, walking or deep-breathing etc, as therapy (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 森林浴 "shinrin'yoku")
jungle / thicket / forest / Buddhist monastery
HSK 7-9
Black Forest / Schwarzwald
forestry station / forest management area
forest / forest tree
a lone tree does not make a forest (idiom) / one cannot accomplish much on one's own
dark green / forest green
forest of apricot trees / (fig.) honorific term for fine doctor (cf Dr Dong Feng 董奉, 3rd century AD, asked his patients to plant apricot trees instead of paying fees)
woods / grove / forest
wooded mountain; mountain forest
secondary growth of forest
to level the ground (with a hoe, shovel etc); to raze (a building, forest etc)
to cultivate (personal qualities) / (of forests etc) to support; to provide a suitable environment for the replenishment of (natural resources: groundwater, animals, plants etc)
wanton destruction of forested lands
(literary) bamboo forest
restoring agricultural land to forest
Stone Forest, notable set of limestone formations in Yunnan
forest fire
mixed forest
old growth forest / primary forest / original forest cover
to clear waste land or forest by burning / slash-and-burn (agriculture)
needle-leaved forest
Jiashan National Forest Park in Shimen 石門|石门, Changde 常德, Hunan
bamboo forest
lakes of wine and forests of meat (idiom); debauchery / sumptuous entertainment
wildfire / forest fire
forest of spear, rain of arrows
to inhabit; to live in (forests, mountains or wetlands etc)
region of forest
mangrove forest or swamp
source of oxygen (of forests and nature reserves) / (cliché) lungs of the planet
equatorial rain forest
lit. not to know the true face of Lushan Mountain (idiom) / fig. can't see the forest for the trees
to restrict access to a mountainous area to promote natural forest regeneration
forest industry / forestry
to denude / illegal logging / forest clearance
forest or meadow viper (Vipera russelii siamensis or similar)
to restrict access to a sandy area to promote natural forest regeneration
Forest of Steles (museum in Xi'an) / Beilin District of Xi’an 西安市, Shaanxi
forest encephalitis
forestation
Black Forest cake
monsoon forest
tropical rain forest
(bird species of China) forest wagtail (Dendronanthus indicus)
forest (esp. of tall trees) / high forest
(proverb) one strand does not make a thread, one tree does not make a forest
green train (slow, noisy, unairconditioned train with forest green livery and yellow trim that ran on the Chinese railway system from the 1950s, phased out in the early 21st century)


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