士林

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Chinese

		scholar; warrior; knight	woods; forest
simp. and trad. (士林)		士	林

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shìlín

(Zhuyin): ㄕˋ ㄌㄧㄣˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): si⁶ lam⁴
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sṳ-lìm
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sū-lîm

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shìlín
  - Zhuyin: ㄕˋ ㄌㄧㄣˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shìhlín
  - Wade–Giles: shih⁴-lin²
  - Yale: shr̀-lín
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyhlin
  - Palladius: шилинь (šilinʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵¹ lin³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: si⁶ lam⁴
  - Yale: sih làhm
  - Cantonese Pinyin: si⁶ lam⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: xi⁶ lem⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː²² lɐm²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sṳ-lìm
  - Hakka Romanization System: sii lim^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: si⁴ lim²
  - Sinological IPA: /sɨ⁵⁵ lim¹¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sū-lîm
  - Tâi-lô: sū-lîm
  - Phofsit Daibuun: suxliim
  - IPA (Xiamen): /su²²⁻²¹ lim²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /su⁴¹⁻²² lim²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /su²²⁻²¹ lim¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /su³³⁻¹¹ lim²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /su³³⁻²¹ lim²³/

Noun

士林

(literary) academic circles
- 設重雲之講，開士林之學。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  设重云之讲，开士林之学。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: c. 578, Yu Xin, The Lament for the South (《哀江南賦》)
  Shè Chóngyún zhī jiǎng, kāi shìlín zhī xué.
  (The Emperor Wu) started his personal sermons at the Chongyun Temple, and he encouraged the renewal of scholarly activities among the educated.

Proper noun

士林

(～區) Shilin District (a district of Taipei, Taiwan)

References

“Entry #36024”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

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