森

Translingual

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.

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

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

森 (Jyutping sam1, Yale sam1)

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Japanese

Kanji

森

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. forest; woods

Readings

• Goon: しん (shin)
• Kan’on: しん (shin)
• Kun: もり (mori)

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

Kanji in this term

森

もり Grade: 1

kun'yomi

Noun

森 (hiragana もり, romaji mori)

1. forest

Derived terms

• 森嫁 (もりよめ, mori yome): lit. a "forest bride;" a forest nymph

Synonyms

• 林, 杜

Proper noun

森 (hiragana もり, romaji Mori)

1. A surname​.

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Korean

Hanja

森 (sam)
Eumhun:

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

• Name (hangeul): 숲()

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Mandarin

Hanzi

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

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Compounds

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

森 (sâm, hồng, dũng)

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