林	111B15   10B.01-1	部居	畫數  8	ㄌㄧㄣˊ [lin2] .
N	(1)  A surname. (2)  A forest, wood: 森林 jungle; 叢林 copse, grove; 竹林 bamboo grove; 林泉 woods and stream, symbol of retirement to countryside; 林壑 rocks and trees, wild nature for enjoyment; 歸隱林下 retire from official life; 綠林豪傑 “green wood” bandits or boxers, heroes of the forest, Robin Hoods. (3)  Forest as symbolic of multitude or group: 儒林 the Confucian scholars esp. in biographical section of dynastic histories; 士林 scholarly circles, the scholars’ world; 碑林 collection of stone inscriptions; 杏林 10.40; used as modifier: 林立 “stand like a forest”; 學堂林立 schools spring up like mushrooms.
Words	1.林薄 [lin2bo2], n., wild jungle, heavy underbrush (sometimes bandits’ hide-out).  2.林產 [lin2chan3], n., products of forest; timber.  3.林場 [lin2chang3], n., forestry station.  4.林檎 [lin2qin2], n., (bot.) kind of crab apple, Pirus malus (also called 沙果).  5.林肯 [lin1ken3], n., Abraham Lincoln.  6.林莽 [lin2mang3], n., wild jungle.  7.林木 [lin2mu4], n., timber, wood; forest.  8.林藪 [lin2sou3], n., woods and jungle.