林 (lín)
forest; woods; common surname Lin
How 林 is written
- Strokes
- 8
- Traditional
- 林
- Simplified
- 林 (unchanged)
Common words using 林
- 少林寺 shàolínsì
- Buddhist monastery famous for its kungfu monks
- 林黛玉 líndàiyù
- Lin Daiyu, female character in The Dream of Red Mansions, cousin and thwarted lover of Jia Baoyu 賈寶玉|贾宝玉
- 桂林 guìlín
- Guilin prefecture level city in Guangxi; Zhuang: Gveilinz
- 森林 sēnlín
- forest; CL:片[pian4]
- 武林 wǔlín
- martial arts (social) circles
- 凡士林 fánshìlín
- vaseline
- 叢林 cónglín
- jungle; thicket; forest
- 吉林 jílín
- Jilin province (Kirin) in northeast China, abbr. 吉, capital 長春|长春; also Jilin prefecture level city, Jilin province
- 吉林市 jílínshì
- Jilin prefecture level city in Jilin province 吉林省 in northeast China
- 吉林省 jílínshěng
- Jilin province (Kirin) in northeast China, abbr. 吉, capital Changchun 長春|长春
- 園林 yuánlín
- gardens; park; landscape garden
- 奧林匹克 àolínpǐkè
- Olympic
林 in a sentence
林先生是我們公司的經理。
Lín xiānshēng shì wǒmen gōngsī de jīnglǐ.
“Mr. Lin is our company's manager.”
How common is 林?
林 is the 364th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 68.9% of all running text.
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