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forest / CL:
HSK 4
woods / grove / forest
HSK 4
gardens; park; landscape garden
HSK 5
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surname Lin / Japanese surname Hayashi
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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)
Namling county, Tibetan: Rnam gling rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
jungle / thicket / forest / Buddhist monastery
HSK 7-9
Shulin city in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
see 吉林省 / see 吉林市
Black Forest / Schwarzwald
Gatling (name) / Richard J. Gatling (1818-1903), inventor of the Gatling gun
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Soviet dictator
Berlin, capital of Germany
Ji Xianlin (1911-2009), Chinese linguist and Indologist
a lone tree does not make a forest (idiom) / one cannot accomplish much on one's own
Wanbolin district of Taiyuan city 太原市, Shanxi
the Shaolin monastery and martial arts school
Boolean (math.) (Tw)
plum (loanword)
afforestation
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)
(loanword) vaseline
Dublin, capital of Ireland
(name) Franklin / Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), US Founding Father, scientist and author
wooded mountain; mountain forest
secondary growth of forest
rainforest
can't see the wood for the trees
(loanword) aspirin
grove
(loanword) formalin
Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), Russian cosmonaut, first human in space
Bahrain
Yunlin county in Taiwan
jungle
refers to academics employed as imperial secretaries from the Tang onwards, forming the Hanlin Imperial Academy 翰林院
warfarin (loanword)
Erlin or Erhlin Town in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县, Taiwan
Dalin or Talin Town in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县, west Taiwan
(mechanical) bearing (loanword) (Tw)
Brooklyn, borough of New York City
martial arts (social) circles
reforestation
Palin (name) / Sarah Palin (1964-), US Republican politician, state governor of Alaska 2006-2009
(loanword) penicillin
restoring agricultural land to forest
goblin (loanword)
(Tw) (loanword) purine
Stone Forest, notable set of limestone formations in Yunnan
(loanword) amoxicillin
Kobayashi (Japanese surname)
Jolin Tsai (1980-), Taiwanese singer
Muslim
HSK 7-9
Colin (name)
shrubbery / low wood
place in Hubei, the starting point for a major rebellion at the end of Western Han / also pr. [Lu:4 lin2]
mixed forest
old growth forest / primary forest / original forest cover
Xiulin or Hsiulin township in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县, east Taiwan
needle-leaved forest
serac band
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (1888-1938), Soviet revolutionary theorist, executed after a show trial in 1937
bamboo forest
Jia Qinglin (1940-), member of the Politburo Standing Committee 2002-2012
lakes of wine and forests of meat (idiom); debauchery / sumptuous entertainment
Spelling (e.g. Spelling Entertainment Group)
Franklin (name) / Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Lorraine (region in France)
methicillin (a semisynthetic penicillin) (loanword)
forint (Hungarian currency) (loanword)
Charlie Chaplin (1899-1977), English movie actor and director
Yuanlin Town in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县, Taiwan
voltaren, a trade name for diclofenac sodium, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug used to reduce swelling and as painkiller
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Soviet dictator
Xilin county in Baise 百色, Guangxi / Xilin district of Yichun city 伊春市, Heilongjiang
Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, USA, location of the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference
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
coconut grove
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), American writer, scientist, inventor, politician and diplomat
Shuilin township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
mangrove forest or swamp
Slytherin (Harry Potter)
sarin (loanword)
Jokes (title of an ancient collection of jokes, often used in the title of modern collections of jokes)
Hualinbu, Ming dynasty theatrical troupe in Nanjing
Chen Yunlin (1941-), chairman of PRC Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) 海峽兩岸關係協會|海峡两岸关系协会 (2008-2013)
furacilinum (loanword)
aminopyrine (loanword)
Michelin (tire company)
equatorial rain forest
coppice / brushwood

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