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

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		林

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lín (lin²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lam⁴
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): lîm
• Min Nan (POJ): nâ / lîm

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: lín
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄣˊ
    • Wade-Giles: lin²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lin
    • IPA ^(key): /lin³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: lam⁴
    • Yale: làhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lam⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /lɐm²¹/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: lîm
    • Hagfa Pinyim: lim2
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: nâ / lîm
    • Tâi-lô: nâ / lîm
    • IPA (Taipei): /na²³/, /lim²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /na¹³/, /lim¹³/
  • Note: nâ - vernacular, lîm - literary.

Middle Chinese pronunciation (林, reconstructed)
Character (林), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 來 (37) Final: 侵 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 力尋切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/liɪm/	/li̯əm/	/liəm/	/lim/	/lim/	/lĭĕm/	/ljem/

Old Chinese pronunciation (林, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
林								lín								‹ lim ›								/*[r]əm/								forest
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
林					8165					林					侵					1					林					/*ɡ·rɯm/

Descendants

• (Hokkien dialect) Tagalog: lim

References

• (Hakka) Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• (Hakka) Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

林

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. woods; grove; forest; copse

Readings

• Goon: りん (rin)
• Kan’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. (rare) 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 (rim, im)
Eumhun:

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

• Name (hangeul): 수풀()

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Vietnamese

Han character

林 (lâm)

1. Forest
2. Gathering
3. Dense

References

• Hán Việt Tự Điển Thiều Chửu v. 3.0, http://vietnamtudien.org/thieuchuu, http://vietnamtudien.org/thieuchuu/&h75.htm#26519