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forest / CL:
HSK 4
woods / grove / forest
HSK 4
gardens; park; landscape garden
HSK 5
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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)
Olympic
Shaolin Temple, Buddhist monastery famous for its kung fu monks
HSK 7-9
the Kremlin
Namling county, Tibetan: Rnam gling rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
Collins (name)
(Tw) Clinton (name) / Bill Clinton (1946-), US Democratic politician, president 1993-2001 / Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician
Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943) / also called 斯大林格勒戰役|斯大林格勒战役
Shuilin township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
Springfield
forest bathing: spending time in a forest, walking or deep-breathing etc, as therapy (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 森林浴 "shinrin'yoku")
jungle / thicket / forest / Buddhist monastery
HSK 7-9
Yunlin county in Taiwan
Shulin city in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
see 吉林省 / see 吉林市
Olympic Games; the Olympics
Shanglin, a county in Nanning City 南寧市|南宁市, Guangxi
Linz (city in Austria)
(bird species of China) yellow-browed tit (Sylviparus modestus)
Black Forest / Schwarzwald
forestry station / forest management area
Brigitte Lin (1954-), Taiwanese actress
Jilin, prefecture-level city in Jilin Province 吉林省
Gatling (name) / Richard J. Gatling (1818-1903), inventor of the Gatling gun
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Soviet dictator
an ordinary hermit lives in the seclusion of the woods; the true recluse chooses the city (idiom)
(bird species of China) grey bush chat (Saxicola ferreus)
Berlin, capital of Germany
Jilin Province, capital Changchun 長春市|长春市 (abbr. to )
Princeton University
Ji Xianlin (1911-2009), Chinese linguist and Indologist
forest / forest tree
a lone tree does not make a forest (idiom) / one cannot accomplish much on one's own
Jilin University
Wanbolin district of Taiyuan city 太原市, Shanxi
the Shaolin monastery and martial arts school
Boolean (math.) (Tw)
plum (loanword)
it takes all sorts (to make a world) (idiom)
afforestation
Yulin, prefecture-level city in Shaanxi Province 陝西省|陕西省
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
woods / grove / forest
International Olympic Committee
Dublin, capital of Ireland
the law of the jungle
(name) Franklin / Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), US Founding Father, scientist and author
wooded mountain; mountain forest
Technical University of Berlin, Germany (Technische Universitaet zu Berlin)
secondary growth of forest
rainforest
can't see the wood for the trees
(loanword) aspirin
Lin Zexu or Lin Tse-hsu "Commissioner Lin" (1785-1850), Qing official whose anti-opium activities led to first Opium war with Britain 1840-1842
grove
Greenwich
(loanword) formalin
Clinton (name) / Bill Clinton (1946-), US Democratic politician, President 1993-2001 / Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician
(Protestantism) Corinth, city in Greece
Ruby Lin (1976-), Taiwanese actress and pop singer
Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), Russian cosmonaut, first human in space
Olympus, Japanese manufacturer of cameras and optical instruments
Bahrain
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Yunlin county in Taiwan
cream (loanword)
jungle
Lin Yutang (1895-1976), Chinese writer, linguist and inventor
Linkou county in Mudanjiang 牡丹江, Heilongjiang / Linkou township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
Jeremy Lin (1988-), Taiwanese-American professional basketball player (NBA)
Lin Chong, one of the Heroes of the Marsh in Water Margin
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
refers to academics employed as imperial secretaries from the Tang onwards, forming the Hanlin Imperial Academy 翰林院
Second Epistle of St Paul to the Corinthians
Lincolnshire (English county)
(Tw) Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
warfarin (loanword)
in great abundance / numerous
The Scholars, satirical Qing dynasty novel by Wu Jingzi 吳敬梓|吴敬梓
forestry / silviculture
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
Princeton, New Jersey
Linnei township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
Greenwich (former location of Greenwich observatory, at zero longitude) / refers to Greenwich mean time
Shilin Yi autonomous county in Kunming 昆明, Yunnan
(mechanical) bearing (loanword) (Tw)
Brooklyn, borough of New York City
Sandy Lam (1966-), Hong Kong pop singer

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