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forest / CL:
HSK 4
woods / grove / forest
HSK 4
serious fire (in a city or a forest etc)
HSK 5
jungle / thicket / forest / Buddhist monastery
HSK 7-9
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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 industry / forestry
forestry station / forest management area
mangrove forest or swamp
Forest of Steles (museum in Xi'an) / Beilin District of Xi’an 西安市, Shaanxi
region of forest
wooded mountain; mountain forest
wildfire / forest fire
forest / forest tree
dark green / forest green
to cultivate (personal qualities) / (of forests etc) to support; to provide a suitable environment for the replenishment of (natural resources: groundwater, animals, plants etc)
forest or meadow viper (Vipera russelii siamensis or similar)
Stone Forest, notable set of limestone formations in Yunnan
woods / grove / forest
bamboo forest
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)
to denude / illegal logging / forest clearance
forest fire
to level the ground (with a hoe, shovel etc); to raze (a building, forest etc)
to clear waste land or forest by burning / slash-and-burn (agriculture)
secondary growth of forest
lakes of wine and forests of meat (idiom); debauchery / sumptuous entertainment
forest (esp. of tall trees) / high forest
forest bathing: spending time in a forest, walking or deep-breathing etc, as therapy (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 森林浴 "shinrin'yoku")
a lone tree does not make a forest (idiom) / one cannot accomplish much on one's own
restoring agricultural land to forest
needle-leaved 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)
lit. not to know the true face of Lushan Mountain (idiom) / fig. can't see the forest for the trees
old growth forest / primary forest / original forest cover
(proverb) one strand does not make a thread, one tree does not make a forest
mixed forest
monsoon forest
(bird species of China) forest wagtail (Dendronanthus indicus)
Black Forest / Schwarzwald
equatorial rain forest
source of oxygen (of forests and nature reserves) / (cliché) lungs of the planet
Jiashan National Forest Park in Shimen 石門|石门, Changde 常德, Hunan
wanton destruction of forested lands
to restrict access to a mountainous area to promote natural forest regeneration
to restrict access to a sandy area to promote natural forest regeneration
forest encephalitis
forest of spear, rain of arrows
tropical rain forest
forestation
Black Forest cake


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