The Chinese Radical: 林


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Meaning
forest    林

Explanation

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 3
clear, orderly, distinct, pain, suffering
chǔ
Top: forest (= two trees ), bottom: correct [actually bales of cloth ] (the correct foot stops at the line )
The forest is correct if it is clear and orderly.  
JLPT HSK 4
dream, illusion
mèng
Top: forest (2 trees ), below: evening (When the moon is not yet fully there, it is only evening.)
Like a forest in the evening, that's my dream.  
JLPT HSK 4
forest, woods
lín

Two trees stand for a forest  
JLPT HSK 4
to prohibit to forbid, to endure
jīn, jìn
Top: wood/forest , bottom: to show, altar (image of an altar with a sacrifice and drippling blood )
In the wood a "Showing up " is forbidden. - Or: Putting only twice wood on the altar (as a sacrifice) is: forbidden.  
JLPT HSK 4
hemp or flax fiber, numb

广
Left: builing 广, below: forest
In the building is (protected) a whole forest of hemp.  
JLPT HSK 5
to rub, massage, to try to figure out

Outside and top: hemp (The building 广 in the forest is for the hemp), below: hand
(Use of hemp for cleaning) With hemp in the hand it is rubbed.  
JLPT HSK 6
devil

Outside and top: hemp (The building 广 in the forest is for the hemp), bottom: demon (death mask [accent , field ], legs , nose >)
Hemp is a demon like the devil.  
JLPT HSK 6
to grind, polish, sharpen, wear down, waste time
mó, mò
Outside and top: hemp (The building 广 in the forest is for the hemp), below: stone
Use hemp on the stones for polishing.  
JLPT HSK 6
to water sth., to sprinkle, drench, to drip
lín, lìn
Left: water , right: forest
With water you'll get a (whole) forest, if you water it.  
JLPT HSK 6
greedy, avaricious, rapacious, insatiable
lán
Top: forest , bottom: women
Whoever sees the "forest" (= personal property) above "women" (= social contacts) is greedy.  
JLPT no HSK
ornamental, refined
bīn
Left: forest , right: hair
In the forest you hang hair as an ornamental refinement? (Among the trees , the fir/pine 杉 is ornamental.)  
JLPT no HSK
gem, beautiful jade
lín
Left: king, jade , right: forest
The king has a forest with gems.  
JLPT no HSK
lapel, overlap of Chinese gown, heart, aspiration
jīn
Left: clothes 衤/, right: prohibit, forbid 禁 (In the wood a "Showing up " is forbidden, Or: Putting only twice wood on the altar (as a sacrifice) is: forbidden.)
Clothes that is forbidden: are lapels.  
JLPT no HSK
burn
fén
Top: forest , bottom: fire
In the forest is a fire, that is burning!  
JLPT no HSK
continued rain
lín
Top: rain (= window with cloud and drops ), bottom: forest
When the rain is like a forest, it is: continued rain.  
JLPT no HSK
Buddhism, Sanskrit
fàn
Top: forest , bottom: usually [=table with a scratch ]
(In nature ethics:) Forests are common in Buddhism.  
JLPT no HSK
foot of a hill

鹿
Top: forest , bottom: deer 鹿 (orig. pictograph of a deer)
Forests with deer are at the foot of the mountain.  

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