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


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