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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
Erlin or Erhlin Town in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县, Taiwan
(dialect) film (loanword) / roll of film
Boolean (math.) (Tw)
plum (loanword)
Brooklyn, borough of New York City
(proverb) one strand does not make a thread, one tree does not make a forest
(loanword) vaseline
refers to academics employed as imperial secretaries from the Tang onwards, forming the Hanlin Imperial Academy 翰林院
Tallinn, capital of Estonia
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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)
Yunlin county in Taiwan
Beilin District of Suihua City 綏化市|绥化市, Heilongjiang
Shulin city in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
Bahrain
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)
lakes of wine and forests of meat (idiom); debauchery / sumptuous entertainment
wooded mountain; mountain forest
aspirin (loanword) (variant of 阿司匹林)
Shilin or Shihlin District of Taipei City 臺北市|台北市, Taiwan
Dalin or Talin Town in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县, west Taiwan
forint (Hungarian currency) (loanword)
Green or Greene (name)
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (1888-1938), Soviet revolutionary theorist, executed after a show trial in 1937
mangrove forest or swamp
Po Lam (area in Hong Kong)
Colin (name)
tropical rain forest
Kobayashi (Japanese surname)
Berlin, capital of Germany
Xinlin district of Daxing'anling prefecture 大興安嶺地區|大兴安岭地区, Heilongjiang
Dublin, capital of Ireland
forestation
Fenglin town in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县, east Taiwan
(mechanical) bearing (loanword) (Tw)
(name) Franklin / Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), US Founding Father, scientist and author
Qionglin or Chiunglin township in Hsinchu County 新竹縣|新竹县, northwest Taiwan
agriculture and forestry
Colin (name)
see 吉林省 / see 吉林市
Merlin
martial arts (social) circles
Wanbolin district of Taiyuan city 太原市, Shanxi
Lorraine (region in France)
penicillin (loanword)
(loanword) formalin
(Tw) (loanword) formalin
Pickering (name)
Charlie Chaplin (1899-1977), English movie actor and director
Zilin, Chinese character dictionary with 12,824 entries from ca. 400 AD
Sichote-Alin mountain range in Russian far east opposite Sakhalin Island
bamboo forest
a Buddhist temple
jungle
Franklin (name) / Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
forest (esp. of tall trees) / high forest
can't see the wood for the trees
to restrict access to a mountainous area to promote natural forest regeneration
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), American writer, scientist, inventor, politician and diplomat
Stone Forest, notable set of limestone formations in Yunnan
Shuilin township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
Shanglin county in Nanning 南寧|南宁, Guangxi
Tianlin county in Baise 百色, Guangxi
a lone tree does not make a forest (idiom) / one cannot accomplish much on one's own
armed escort
coconut grove
the Shaolin monastery and martial arts school
the Confucius family mausoleum at Qufu 曲阜, rebuilt and extended by every dynasty
Hulin, county-level city in Jixi 雞西|鸡西, Heilongjiang
Namling county, Tibetan: Rnam gling rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
Liulin county in Lüliang 呂梁|吕梁, Shanxi 山西
secondary growth of forest
equatorial rain forest
Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), Russian cosmonaut, first human in space
Gatling (name) / Richard J. Gatling (1818-1903), inventor of the Gatling gun
Hualinbu, Ming dynasty theatrical troupe in Nanjing
Forest of Steles (museum in Xi'an) / Beilin District of Xi’an 西安市, Shaanxi
(loanword) amoxicillin
(loanword) aspirin
Michelin (tire company)
rainforest
Xilin county in Baise 百色, Guangxi / Xilin district of Yichun city 伊春市, Heilongjiang
Medellín, city in Colombia
Jolin Tsai (1980-), Taiwanese singer
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Soviet dictator
Tan Zhenlin (1902-1983), PRC revolutionary and military leader, played political role after the Cultural Revolution
Ji Xianlin (1911-2009), Chinese linguist and Indologist
Zeppelin (name) / Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917), inventor of the Zeppelin dirigible airship
Pinglin township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
needle-leaved forest
sarin (loanword)

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