Dictionary › 森林

森林

sēn lín

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Measure word 片

森林 (sēn lín) means "forest". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 森林 means

1. forest

The characters in 森林

• 森sēn(bound form) densely wooded; (fig.) (bound form) multitudinous; gloomy; forbidding
• 林lín(bound form) woods; forest; (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people)…

Example sentences

• 森林里下雨了。
  It had rained in the forest.
• 我们都在森林里。
  We're in the forest.
• 我曾是一片森林。
  I was a forest.
• 他们正向森林而去。
  Tāmen zhèngxiàng sēnlín ér qù.
  They are making for the forest.
• 他在森林中迷了路。
  He lost his way in the woods.
• 鸟儿在森林里歌唱。
  Birds were singing in the woods.

Words starting with 森林

• 森林浴sēn lín yùforest bathing: spending time in a forest, walking or deep-breathing etc, as therapy…
• 森林培育sēn lín péi yùforestry; silviculture
• 森林脑炎sēn lín nǎo yánforest encephalitis

Words containing 森林

• 黑森林Hēi sēn línBlack Forest; Schwarzwald
• 布雷顿森林Bù léi dùn Sēn línBretton Woods, New Hampshire, USA, location of the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference
• 黑森林蛋糕Hēi Sēn lín dàn gāoBlack Forest cake
• 石屎森林shí shǐ sēn lín(dialect) concrete jungle
• 夹山国家森林公园Jiā shān Guó jiā Sēn lín Gōng yuánJiashan National Forest Park in Shimen 石门
• 只见树木，不见森林zhǐ jiàn shù mù , bù jiàn sēn líncan't see the wood for the trees

Where 森林 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Environment & protection (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read sēn lín correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.