林

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.2 Noun 3.2.1 Synonyms 3.3 Proper noun 3.4 Proper noun 3.4.1 Usage notes 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 6 Middle Chinese 6.1 Han character 7 Min Nan 7.1 Hanzi 7.1.1 Descendants 8 Vietnamese 8.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

木 (tree) is repeated twice to give the idea of multiple trees (compare 森), thus a forest.

[edit] Han character

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

1. forest, grove
2. used as a surname

[edit] 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

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

林 (jyutping lam4, Yale làhm)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

林 (grade 1 kanji)

1. woods; grove; forest

[edit] Readings

• On: りん (rin)
• Kun: はやし (hayashi)

[edit] Noun

林 (hiragana はやし, romaji hayashi)

1. woods

[edit] Synonyms

• 森

[edit] Proper noun

林 (hiragana はやし, romaji Hayashi)

1. A Japanese surname.
2. A Japanese given name.

[edit] Proper noun

林 (hiragana りん, romaji Rin)

1. A surname.
2. A Japanese given name.

[edit] 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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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

林
Eumhun:

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

• Name (hangeul): 수풀()

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

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

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[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

林 (*lim)

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[edit] Min Nan

[edit] Hanzi

林 (POJ Lîm)

[edit] Descendants

• (Hokkien dialect) Filipino: Lim

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

林 (lâm)