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丛林

cóng lín

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 叢林

丛林 (cóng lín) means "jungle; thicket; forest". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 丛林 means

1. jungle
2. thicket
3. forest
4. Buddhist monastery

The characters in 丛林

• 丛cóngcluster; collection; collection of books
• 林lín(bound form) woods; forest; (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people)…

Example sentences

• 那是丛林狼吗？
  Nà shì cónglínláng ma?
  Is that a coyote?
• 狮子是丛林之王。
  Shīzi shì cónglín zhī wáng.
  The lion is the king of the jungle.
• 飞机消失在丛林中。
  The plane disappeared into the forest.
• 孩子们在丛林中迷路了。
  Háizimen zài cónglín zhōng mílù le.
  The children got lost in the jungle.
• 他写了一本关于丛林冒险的书。
  Tā xiě le yī běn guānyú cónglín màoxiǎn de shū.
  He wrote a book about a jungle adventure.
• 我们往下看，是一片水泥丛林。
  Looking down, we saw a concrete jungle.

Words starting with 丛林

• 丛林法则cóng lín fǎ zéthe law of the jungle

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