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forest / CL:
HSK 4
woods / grove / forest
HSK 4
gardens; park; landscape garden
HSK 5
jungle / thicket / forest / Buddhist monastery
HSK 7-9
Muslim
HSK 7-9
Shaolin Temple, Buddhist monastery famous for its kung fu monks
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *林* | 林* | *林
surname Lin / Japanese surname Hayashi
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  *林* | 林* | *林
(bound form) woods; forest / (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people) / (bound form) a collection (of similar things)
forest industry / forestry
Horinger county in Hohhot 呼和浩特, Inner Mongolia
Jilin University
martial arts (social) circles
(dialect) film (loanword) / roll of film
Xilinhot City in Xilingol League 錫林郭勒盟|锡林郭勒盟, Inner Mongolia
Merlin
Lincoln (name) / Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), US president 1861-1865 / Lincoln, US car make
woodland
the Shaolin monastery and martial arts school
forestry station / forest management area
mangrove forest or swamp
region of forest
Michelin (tire company)
wooded mountain; mountain forest
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Soviet dictator
Olympic
Olympus, Japanese manufacturer of cameras and optical instruments
forestry
agriculture and forestry
Berlin, capital of Germany
Stalingrad, former name of Volvograd 伏爾加格勒|伏尔加格勒 (1925-1961)
Beilin District of Suihua City 綏化市|绥化市, Heilongjiang
vaseline (loanword)
Beijing Forestry University
Dublin, capital of Ireland
jungle
Green or Greene (name)
forest / forest tree
Wanbolin district of Taiyuan city 太原市, Shanxi
aspirin (loanword)
Liulin county in Lüliang 呂梁|吕梁, Shanxi 山西
refers to academics employed as imperial secretaries from the Tang onwards, forming the Hanlin Imperial Academy 翰林院
Brooklyn, borough of New York City
Shulin city in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
Stone Forest, notable set of limestone formations in Yunnan
woods / grove / forest
bamboo forest
Bahrain
Olympia (Greece)
Gatling (name) / Richard J. Gatling (1818-1903), inventor of the Gatling gun
forint (Hungarian currency) (loanword)
Po Lam (area in Hong Kong)
Xinglin District of Xiamen city (renamed Haicang 海滄區|海沧区 in 2003)
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)
Tallinn, capital of Estonia
(loanword) formalin
armed escort
coconut grove
amoxicillin (loanword)
forest fire
warfarin (loanword)
(name) Franklin / Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), US Founding Father, scientist and author
a Buddhist temple
Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician
Shanglin county in Nanning 南寧|南宁, Guangxi
Linkou county in Mudanjiang 牡丹江, Heilongjiang / Linkou township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
Collins (name)
Shilin or Shihlin District of Taipei City 臺北市|台北市, Taiwan
Greenwich
Huolin Gol, county-level city in Tongliao 通遼|通辽, Inner Mongolia
Lin Shu (1852-1924), writer and influential translator and adaptor of vast swathes of Western literature into Classical Chinese
Jokes (title of an ancient collection of jokes, often used in the title of modern collections of jokes)
Fenglin town in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县, east Taiwan
Chinese pearleaf crabapple (Malus asiatica)
in great abundance / numerous
Charlie Chaplin (1899-1977), English movie actor and director
(bird species of China) Himalayan owl (Strix nivicolum)
place in Hubei, the starting point for a major rebellion at the end of Western Han / also pr. [Lu:4 lin2]
Lindian county in Daqing 大慶|大庆, Heilongjiang
penicillin (loanword)
Namling county, Tibetan: Rnam gling rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
Springfield
Tianlin county in Baise 百色, Guangxi
Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), Russian cosmonaut, first human in space
sarin (loanword)
clindamycin
woods and ravines / tranquillity of trees and valleys
Medellín, city in Colombia
(idiom) chivalrous hero, often one who combats injustice or fights for a noble cause (originally referred to a group of outlaws who assembled in 綠林|绿林)
furacilinum (loanword)
secondary growth of forest
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Soviet dictator
lakes of wine and forests of meat (idiom); debauchery / sumptuous entertainment
the Confucius family mausoleum at Qufu 曲阜, rebuilt and extended by every dynasty

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