森

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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 3.1.2 Compounds 3.2 Noun 3.2.1 Synonyms 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

森 is composed of 木 repeated three times to suggest a large number (compare 三) of trees such as one would find in a forest.

[edit] Han character

森 (radical 75 木+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木木木 (DDD), four-corner 4099₄, composition ⿱木林)

1. forest
2. dark as a forest
3. luxuriant vegetation

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 534, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14974
• Dae Jaweon: page 922, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1226, character 2
• Unihan data for U+68EE

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

森 (Yale sam1)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

森 (grade 1 kanji)

1. forest; woods

[edit] Readings

• On: しん (shin)
• Kun: もり (mori)

[edit] Compounds

• 森閑
• 森厳
• 森々, 森森
• 森然
• 森羅万象
• 森林
• 森林火災
• 森林公園
• 森林浴

[edit] Noun

森 (hiragana もり, romaji mori)

1. forest

[edit] Synonyms

• 林

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

森
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 삼 (revised: sam, McCune-Reischauer: sam, Yale: sam)

• Name (hangeul): 숲()

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

森 (pinyin sēn (sen1), Wade-Giles sen¹)

[edit] Compounds

• 森冷
• 森林
• 森罗殿
• 森罗万象
• 森然
• 森森
• 森严
• 森郁

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

森 (sâm)