林

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

木 (wood) is repeated twice to give the idea of multiple trees (compare 森, 𣓏, 𣛧, 𣡕, 𣡽), thus a forest.

Han character

林 (radical 75 木+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 木木 (DD), four-corner 4499₀, composition ⿰木木)

1. forest, grove, woods
2. used as a surname

Derived characters

• 麻 菻
• 歴 (in Japanese shinjitai)

References

• KangXi: page 516, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14551
• Dae Jaweon: page 903, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1164, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6797
• http://www.kanjinetworks.com/eng/kanji-dictionary/online-kanji-etymology-dictionary.cfm

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Cantonese

Hanzi

林 (jyutping lam4, Yale làhm)

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Japanese

Kanji

林 (grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. woods; grove; forest; copse

Readings

• On: りん (rin)
• Kun: はやし (hayashi)

Noun

林 (hiragana はやし, romaji hayashi)

1. woods

Synonyms

• 森

Proper noun

林 (hiragana はやし, romaji Hayashi)

1. A surname.
2. A female given name

Proper noun

林 (hiragana りん, romaji Rin)

1. A surname.
2. A female given name

Usage notes

As a surname, this reading is more often used by people of Chinese descent, since it is similar to the Mandarin Chinese reading of Lín.

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Korean

Hanja

林
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 림>임 (revised: rim>im, McCune-Reischauer: rim>im, Yale: lim>im)

• Name (hangeul): 수풀()

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Mandarin

Hanzi

林 (pinyin lín (lin2), Wade-Giles lin², Yale lin²)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

林 (*lim)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

林 (POJ Lîm)

Descendants

• (Hokkien dialect) Tagalog: Lim

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Vietnamese

Han character

林 (lâm)