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| 林 | |
lam4
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[1] [n] forest; grove; copse [2] [n] collection of books, works, literary extracts, etc. [3] circles; many; numerous; a great body of (capable persons, etc.) [4] a Chinese family name Stroke count: 8
Level: 2
Radical: 木 (#75)
This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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| 林 | |
| This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 and last edited on 30th Oct 2008 | |
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森林
sam1 lam4 = forest
樹林
syu6 lam4 = woods; forest; grove
黑森林
hak1 sam1 lam4 = Black Forest
林蔭道
lam4 jam3 dou6 = avenue; boulevard
叢林
cung4 lam4 = jungle
園林
jyun4 lam4 = gardens
菲林
fei1 lam4*2 = film 粵
少林
siu3 lam4 = shaolin
少林寺
siu3 lam4 zi6*2 = Shaolin Temple
穆斯林
muk6 si1 lam4 = Muslim (transliteration via pinyin)See all 137 compounds |
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Showing 1 example containing 林
王先生要經廣州前往桂林。
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Mr Wong wants to go to Guilin via Guangzhou. Legend 國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese. 粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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Decimal representation of this word: 林
Unicode code for this character: U+6797 (off-site link)
[big][url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/36/]林[/url][/big]
HTML Code to link to this word:
<a href="http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/36/" class="chinesemed" target="_blank">林</a>
Decimal representation of this word: 林
Unicode code for this character: U+6797 (off-site link)
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