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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
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  *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)
martial arts (social) circles
(dialect) film (loanword) / roll of film
Merlin
the Shaolin monastery and martial arts school
mangrove forest or swamp
Michelin (tire company)
wooded mountain; mountain forest
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Soviet dictator
agriculture and forestry
Berlin, capital of Germany
Beilin District of Suihua City 綏化市|绥化市, Heilongjiang
vaseline (loanword)
Dublin, capital of Ireland
jungle
Green or Greene (name)
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
bamboo forest
Bahrain
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)
warfarin (loanword)
(name) Franklin / Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), US Founding Father, scientist and author
a Buddhist temple
Shanglin county in Nanning 南寧|南宁, Guangxi
Shilin or Shihlin District of Taipei City 臺北市|台北市, Taiwan
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
Charlie Chaplin (1899-1977), English movie actor and director
place in Hubei, the starting point for a major rebellion at the end of Western Han / also pr. [Lu:4 lin2]
penicillin (loanword)
Namling county, Tibetan: Rnam gling rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
Tianlin county in Baise 百色, Guangxi
Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), Russian cosmonaut, first human in space
sarin (loanword)
Medellín, city in Colombia
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
Dalin or Talin Town in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县, west Taiwan
forest (esp. of tall trees) / high forest
aspirin (loanword) (variant of 阿司匹林)
Lorraine (region in France)
Jolin Tsai (1980-), Taiwanese singer
Xilin county in Baise 百色, Guangxi / Xilin district of Yichun city 伊春市, Heilongjiang
Colin (name)
Hualinbu, Ming dynasty theatrical troupe in Nanjing
Xiulin or Hsiulin township in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县, east Taiwan
grove
Ji Xianlin (1911-2009), Chinese linguist and Indologist
goblin (loanword)
Erlin or Erhlin Town in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县, Taiwan
Zilin, Chinese character dictionary with 12,824 entries from ca. 400 AD
(mechanical) bearing (loanword) (Tw)
Xinlin district of Daxing'anling prefecture 大興安嶺地區|大兴安岭地区, Heilongjiang
coppice / brushwood
a lone tree does not make a forest (idiom) / one cannot accomplish much on one's own
restoring agricultural land to forest
Li Delin (530-590), historian of Northern Wei and Sui dynasty
Ritalin (brand name) / methylphenidate (stimulant drug used to treat ADHD)
antipyrine (loanword)
needle-leaved forest
Boolean (math.) (Tw)
plum (loanword)
Green Wall of China, a massive afforestation program on the eastern margin of the Gobi Desert aimed at stopping the desert's expansion, started in 1978 and planned to be completed by 2050
old growth forest / primary forest / original forest cover
can't see the wood for the trees
Qionglin or Chiunglin township in Hsinchu County 新竹縣|新竹县, northwest Taiwan
reforestation
(proverb) one strand does not make a thread, one tree does not make a forest
Kobayashi (Japanese surname)
mixed forest
shrubbery / low wood
monsoon forest

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