黑森林

Hēisēnlín
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 3
Tā shēngrì dàngāo xuǎn le hēisēnlín.
She picked Black Forest cake for her birthday.
HSK 7-9
Wǒmen qù Déguó Hēisēnlín túbù le 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