森

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森 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木木木 (DDD), four-corner 4099₄, composition ⿱木林)

• 𠎊, 𢵳, 𣛧, 潹, 𤏗, 𦼚

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 534, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14974
• Dae Jaweon: page 922, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1226, character 2
• Unihan data for U+68EE

Historical forms of the character 森
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : Triplication of 木 (“tree”), to suggest a large number (compare 三) of trees such as one would find in a forest. Compare 林 (*ɡ·rɯm).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ram (“jungle; forest; country; field”) (STEDT). Schuessler (2007) suggests that it may be an intensive derivation of 林 (*ɡ·rɯm, “forest”), perhaps influenced by parallels in Austroasiatic, such as Old Khmer sarāma, sarāṃ (“a tract of stunted vegetation”), derived from rām (“inundated forest along a watercourse”). Alternatively, Mei (2012) suggests that the prefix *s- has a denominative function.

森

1. full of trees; densely forested
2. in profusion; multitudinous; dense
3. dark; gloomy; cold

   陰森／阴森  ―  yīnsēn  ―  gloomy

4. orderly
5. strict; rigid; rigorous

   森嚴／森严  ―  sēnyán  ―  strict; tight

6. An orthographic borrowing of the Japanese surname 森, Mori
7. (～町):
   1. Mori (a town in Hokkaido prefecture, Japan)
   2. Mori (a town in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan)
8. (Malaysia, Singapore) Short for 森美蘭／森美兰 (Sēnměilán, “Negeri Sembilan”).

• “森”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

• 杜 (less common; specific to the shrine grove sense)

(First grade kyōiku kanji)

1. forest, woods
2. objects lined up
3. silent

• Go-on: しん (shin, Jōyō)^{←しん (sin, historical)←しむ (simu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: しん (shin, Jōyō)^{←しん (sin, historical)←しむ (simu, ancient)}
• Kun: もり (mori, 森, Jōyō)
• Nanori: しげ (shige)、しげる (shigeru)

From Old Japanese, first attested in the Man'yōshū (c. 759 CE).^[1]

Probably cognate with 盛り (mori, “heap, pile”), the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 盛る (moru, “to heap up, to build up into a significant amount”), from the way a forest can look like a heap or mound from a distance.^[2]

• (Tokyo) もり (Heiban – )^[3][4][2]
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森(もり) • (mori) 

1. a forest (dense collection of trees)

   Synonym: 森林 (shinrin)

   • 1999 July 22, “トレント [Trent]”, in Vol.4, Konami:

     まだまだ成(せい)長(ちょう)し続(つづ)けている森(もり)の大(たい)木(ぼく)。森(もり)の守(まも)り神(かみ)。

     Madamada seichōshitsuzuketeiru mori no taiboku. Mori no mamori kami.

     A growing forest tree. He is the guardian god of the woods.

2. a shrine grove

• 木(き)を見(み)て森(もり)を見(み)ず (ki o mite mori o mizu, “to not see the wood for the trees”)

• 林(はやし) (hayashi, “a wood”, generally smaller than a mori)

森(もり) • (Mori) 

1. a surname
2. 森町:
   1. Mori (a town in Hokkaido prefecture, Japan)
   2. Mori (a town in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan)

森 (eumhun 숲 삼 (sup sam))

1. forest

森: Hán Việt readings: sâm, sum
森: Nôm readings: chùm, dâm, dúm, râm, sâm, sum, xum

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