山林

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Chinese

mountain; hill woods; forest
simp. and trad.
(山林)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (21) (37)
Final () (73) (139)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () II III
Fanqie
Baxter srean lim
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʃˠɛn/ /liɪm/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʃᵚæn/ /lim/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʃæn/ /ljem/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʂəɨn/ /lim/
Li
Rong
/ʃɛn/ /liəm/
Wang
Li
/ʃæn/ /lĭĕm/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ʂăn/ /li̯əm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shān lín
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
saan1 lam4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shān lín
Middle
Chinese
‹ srɛn › ‹ lim ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-ŋrar/ /*əm/
English mountain, hill forest

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 11052 8165
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sreːn/ /*ɡ·rɯm/

Noun

山林

  1. mountains and forests
  2. mountain forest
  3. (by extension) secluded place; seclusion

Japanese

Kanji in this term
さん
Grade: 1
りん
Grade: 1
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(さん)(りん) (sanrin

  1. mountains and forests
  2. mountain forest

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN