lín
noun #2,023

Meanings

  1. 1 woods
  2. 2 forest
  3. 3 circles

Examples

Sēnlín
forest
林业
Línyè
forestry

Tips

usage
Two (trees) side by side — many trees make a forest.

Components

radical
tree (radical)
Left tree — the indexing radical, slightly compressed so the bottom-right diagonal becomes a dot to make room for the second tree. This is the standard left-position contraction of found in peach, pine, forest. The radical anchors in the family of woody plants.
semantic
tree (semantic)
Right tree — full unconstrained shape with all four strokes intact. Two trees side by side make a small grove: classic compound ideograph where doubling is the entire point. Stack three trees and you get (forest, denser than ). Doubling is the visual root of collective-tree words.

Stroke Order

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