黑森林

Hēisēnlín
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 Black Forest (region in Germany)
  2. 2 Black Forest cake

Examples

Tā shēngrì dàngāo xuǎnle hēisēnlín.
She picked Black Forest cake for her birthday.
Wǒmen qù Déguó Hēisēnlín túbùle yī zhōu.
We went hiking in Germany's Black Forest for a week.

Tips

culture
Calque of German Schwarzwald. In Chinese bakeries it almost always means the cake — Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte — chocolate sponge layered with cherries and whipped cream. The forest itself is a secondary meaning unless context makes it explicit.

Stroke Order

hēi
sēn
lín