小林

Chinese

		small; tiny; few small; tiny; few; young	woods; forest
simp. and trad. (小林)		小	林

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Xiǎolín

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄌㄧㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): siu² lam⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Xiǎolín
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄌㄧㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Siǎolín
    • Wade–Giles: Hsiao³-lin²
    • Yale: Syǎu-lín
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Sheaulin
    • Palladius: Сяолинь (Sjaolinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ lin³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: siu² lam⁴
    • Yale: síu làhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: siu² lam⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: xiu² lem⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːu̯³⁵ lɐm²¹/

Proper noun

小林

1. An orthographic borrowing of the Japanese surname 小林, Kobayashi
2. (～市) Kobayashi (a city in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan)
3. (～鎮) Xiaolin (a town in Sui, Suizhou, Hubei, China)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
小	林
こ Grade: 1	はやし > ばやし Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Proper noun

小(こ)林(ばやし) • (Kobayashi) 

1. Kobayashi (a city in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan)
2. a surname